[EricDraven]

To all the men who fought and died on this day 1944, may they rest in peace.

[Horsepower]

we should have set one of the servers to vanilla BF1942 Omaha Beach all day.

The majority of troops who landed on the D-Day beaches were from Great Britain, Canada and the US. However, troops from many other countries participated in D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, in all the different armed services: Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Poland.

On D-Day, the Allies landed around 156,000 troops in Normandy. The American forces landed numbered 73,000: 23,250 on Utah Beach, 43,250 on Omaha Beach, and 15,500 airborne troops. In the British and Canadian sector, 83,115 troops were landed (61,715 of them British): 24,970 on Gold Beach, 21,400 on Juno Beach, 28,845 on Sword Beach, and 7900 airborne troops.

11,590 aircraft were available to support the landings. On D-Day, Allied aircraft flew 14,674 sorties, and 127 were lost.

In the airborne landings on both flanks of the beaches, 2395 aircraft and 867 gliders of the RAF and USAAF were used on D-Day.

Operation Neptune involved huge naval forces, including 6939 vessels: 1213 naval combat ships, 4126 landing ships and landing craft, 736 ancillary craft and 864 merchant vessels.

Some 195,700 personnel were assigned to Operation Neptune: 52,889 US, 112,824 British, and 4988 from other Allied countries.

By the end of 11 June (D + 5), 326,547 troops, 54,186 vehicles and 104,428 tons of supplies had been landed on the beaches.

As well as the troops who landed in Normandy on D-Day, and those in supporting roles at sea and in the air, millions more men and women in the Allied countries were involved in the
preparations for D-Day. They played thousands of different roles, both in the armed forces and as civilians.

[EricDraven]

yea a lot of server's pulled all day "d-day" maps, the forgotten hope modification is very detailed and has a very interesting couple of omaha maps, and i was unaware so many nationalitys were involved in the assualt, thanks for the history lesson Always love learning new stuff

[*SW€D€*]

Unfortunately there were swedes that had joind the SS earlier years, that fought against allied troops in Normandy.

Me as a swede are over my head ashame over this.

Luckily there were also swedish man that joined the allied forces, so we were not ONLY helping the the germans.
Later in the war most of the swedish population were against Germany.

But for those who fought and gave their lives for a free world may they rest in peace and never be forgotten.

Ps: I DON'T count Sovietunion as a freeworld-fighter!!!

[Horsepower]

Originally Posted by Sgt O'Neil

Unfortunately there were swedes that had joind the SS earlier years, that fought against allied troops in Normandy.

that's ok. because of your beautiful women, we forgive you. Skål!

[*SW€D€*]

Originally Posted by Horsepower

that's ok. because of your beautiful women, we forgive you. Skål!

Lol...Thats nice to hear. Oh btw skål on you 2

Btw#2
Here is a pitchure of the princess in the swedish royal family....Just another typical swedish girl

[=HR=Red_Devil]

My uncle died in the Normandy Beach landing on D-Day - he was 17 years old - he lied about his age to get into the British army. He was blown up by a mine.

The Soldier

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware.

Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Rupert Brooke

[Smurf]

Originally Posted by Sgt O'Neil

Unfortunately there were swedes that had joind the SS earlier years, that fought against allied troops in Normandy.

Me as a swede are over my head ashame over this.

Luckily there were also swedish man that joined the allied forces, so we were not ONLY helping the the germans.
Later in the war most of the swedish population were against Germany.

But for those who fought and gave their lives for a free world may they rest in peace and never be forgotten.

Ps: I DON'T count Sovietunion as a freeworld-fighter!!

I didn't know Swedes were in the S.S., but they gave Germany a huge amount of iron ore which was turned into steel. Without Sweden, Germany would of had a lot less panzers and vehicles....

As for the Soviet Union, I wish Germany would of won (kind of)... When the two most evil people ever, fight each other, you want them both to lose. I view Stalin to be worst than Hitler. (Hitler killed about 11 million people in concetration camps and Stalin killed around 20 million, though there are debates on that number, the lowest is about 13 million, which is still more than Hitler killed) If Hitler won he would of continued to kill Jews and when Stalin won he killed Jews afterwards... He also killed others, he supplied North Korea with weapons and started the cold war.... If Hitler won the world would be different, but he still would of lost WWII. So, think of a world after WWII that didn't have a cold war.... No war in Vietnam and certainly no Korean war.... Hmm.. It's something to think about.

[Horsepower]

I don't know about all of that Smurf. The Soviets paid a heavy price in WWII.

The Soviet Union lost the most with 25 million deaths, but only about a third were combat related.


Quoting from WWII for Dummies -"Over 60 million people died in WWII and of those 60 million, more were civilian than soldiers." Pages 363 and 364 give a run down with some numbers but does not offer a breakdown of the total civilian vs. soldier. The Soviet Union lost the most with 25 million deaths, but only about a third were combat related. China's death toll is incomplete but estimates are between 15 and 22 million, Poland had 6 million deaths including 3 million Jews, roughly 20% of its prewar population, Germany lost 4 million soldiers and 2 million civilians, many of them women, Japan had 1.2 million battle deaths and another 1.4 million soldiers listed as missing, almost 1 million civilians were killed in the bombing raids between 1944 and 1945, over 1.7 million Yugoslavs and 500,000 Greeks died in the war, France lost 200,000 soldiers and 400,000 civilians, Italy lost 330,000 people, Hungary lost 147,000 men in combat, Bulgaria lost 19,000 in combat, Romania lost 73,000 in combat, Great Britain lost 264,000 soldiers and 60,000 civilians in bombing raids, the United States lost 292,000 soldiers, the Dutch lost 10,000 soldiers and 190,000 civilians, Australia lost 23,000 men in combat, Canada 37,000 soldiers, India lost 24,000 men in battle, New Zeland 10,000 and South Africa 6,000. These totals do not include the 6 million Jews who perished in the Final Solution of Nazi Germany or the 17 million dead as a result of Japan's policies in Asia from 1931 to 1945.

[Bonez]

dosen't the swiss have the huge amount of steel production ?