On June 6th in US Political History
Part III
Part III
On June 6th in 1942 Japanese forces retreated in the World War II Battle of Midway.
On June 6th in 1944 Theodore Roosevelt Jr. received a congressional medal of honor.
On June 6th in 1944 On D-Day Brig. General Norman "Dutch" Cota was the first American General to step foot on Omaha Beach. Cota, assistant commander of the 29th Infantry Division, he spurred his men to cross the beach under withering German fire.
On June 6th in 1944 Cherokee tribal members communicated via radios in their native language on the Normandy beaches.
On June 6th in 1944 Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, became the 1st to die during D-Day. Over the next 10 weeks of fighting 300,000 men, women and children died in Normandy.
On June 6th in 1944 By the end of D-Day 156,000 Allied soldiers had come ashore on the Normandy beaches with losses of 2,500 men. By the end of the day, the Allies had established a beachhead that accelerated the end of World War II. A million Allied troops, under the overall command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, moved onto five Normandy beachheads in three weeks. Operations “Neptune” and “Overlord” put forces on the beaches and supplies aimed at the liberation of Europe and the conquest of Germany. Operation Overlord landed 400,000 Allied American, British, and Canadian troops on the beaches of Normandy, France. In addition, US and British airborne forces landed behind the German lines and US Army Rangers scaled the cliffs at Pointe de Hoc. More than 6,000 trucks of the Red Ball Express kept gasoline and other vital supplies rolling in as American troops and tanks pushed the Germans back toward their homeland.
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