15 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT FD-DAY

D means… what? So innocuous an origin that it’s actually amazing – D-Day means simply ‘date’, which along with H-Hour – ‘time’ – were used by the US Army as far back as World War I as shorthand in briefings. Drone warfare The Germans fielded remote-control Goliath mini-tanks better known as ‘beetles.’ Small, tracked and laden with high explosives, they were steered by a joystick into tanks and tightly packed infantry. They were of limited effect. Friends in the air Although primarily concerned with the Pacific War in 1944, the Royal Australian Air Force and Royal New Zealand Air Force both provided air support for the D-Day landings. The other allies One regiment of Free French and one regiment of Polish Armed Forces In The West also took part in…

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