National D-Day Memorial

bedford82 · 26-04-2006, 04:24 AM

I'm a student at Virgnia Tech doing a persuasive speech regarding the National D-Day Memoiral and it would be appreciated if yall wou take this survey. Thanks a bunch....https://survey.vt.edu/survey/entry.jsp?id=1145324976209

Owen · 26-04-2006, 07:34 AM

I've completed the survey, now could you tell us more about the memorial?

Is this the one?http://www.dday.org/

Surely it should be The International D-day Memorial?
How well represented are the other D-Day nations,ie Britain and Canada?
OK spidge has shown me.

spidge · 26-04-2006, 08:27 AM

Welcome Bedford82 and good luck with your quest.

PS: The Australian flag worked once then none of the others would open. Now the Australian flag won't open either.

This was the content for the Aussie contribution:

Australia
Most of the 1,100 officers and men of the Royal Australian Volunteer Naval Reserve taking part in Operation Neptune on D-Day served aboard British ships or as commanders of several landing flotillas and motor torpedo boats. Approximately 11,000 Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) officers and men served with Royal Air Force (RAF) or RAAF squadrons for every phase of D-Day. Australia also provided 15 percent of the 1136 aircraft committed by Bomber Command on D-Day.

Owen · 26-04-2006, 09:14 AM

Aha under the other Flags.
United Kingdom
On D-Day the British Second Army composed of two corps (including three British divisions with auxiliary units and services - some 62,000 Britons) landed on and around Gold Beach, Sword Beach, and along the Orne River toward Caen. The UK provided about 80 percent of the Allied warships in Operation Neptune. The Royal Air Force flew 5,656 sorties in direct support of the landing. Air Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder served as Deputy Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force. The senior land, sea, and air commanders were British.

Canada
On D-Day about 15,000 troops serving in Canada's Third Infantry Division landed on Juno Beach under the operational control of the British 1st Corps. The Royal Canadian Air Force committed 39 strategic and tactical squadrons on D-Day, flying 230 sorties of the 1,200 mounted by Bomber Command. Nearly 10,000 officers and men (more than six times the strength of the Royal Canadian Navy in 1939) served aboard the 126 Canadian fighting ships, 44 landing craft among them, participating in Operation Neptune on D-Day.

bedford82 · 26-04-2006, 04:01 PM

As far as the memoiral goes it is in Bedford since that towm lost more men percentage wise than any other U.S community, 22 of 37 men were killed. It's really a beautiful place if you ever have the chance to visit. There are three parts to the memoiral depicting the planning, actual invasion, and victory. If you go to the website you asked about they have pictures. All 12 nations somehow involved in D-Day are represented with flags and plaques with the names of those who died during the invasion.

Gnomey · 26-04-2006, 04:18 PM

Welcome to the forum Bedford, I have completed the survey for you. Good luck with your quest.

von Poop · 26-04-2006, 04:25 PM

Ayup,
Survey done.
Entry charge for a Memorial?
Outrageous.
Would they charge veterans? or family members?

26-04-2006, 07:20 PM

Wotcha dude!
Done the survey, do i win anything?
Charging for entry, i understand why as it would make it easier to maintain if there was a regular cashflow, but somehow for a memorial it rankles. Tricky question.
Kitty

Kiwiwriter · 27-04-2006, 03:13 PM

And good luck with it, Bedford!

New Zealand's contribution is given below, from that page:

New Zealand
About 30,000 members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force were in Operation Overlord. Squadrons of New Zealand's fighters and bombers flew in every phase, the former performing with particular efficacy above Omaha Beach on D-Day. Some 4,000 officers and men of the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve also took part in Operation Neptune. On D-Day many of New Zealand's junior officers commanded either landing craft delivering troops to the British beaches or one of the numerous motor torpedo boats interdicting German E-boats.

26-04-2006, 04:24 AM	#1 (permalink)
bedford82 Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 3	National D-Day Memorial I'm a student at Virgnia Tech doing a persuasive speech regarding the National D-Day Memoiral and it would be appreciated if yall wou take this survey. Thanks a bunch....https://survey.vt.edu/survey/entry.jsp?id=1145324976209

26-04-2006, 07:34 AM	#2 (permalink)
Owen Top Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs Posts: 8,692	I've completed the survey, now could you tell us more about the memorial? Is this the one?http://www.dday.org/ Surely it should be The International D-day Memorial? How well represented are the other D-Day nations,ie Britain and Canada? OK spidge has shown me. Last edited by Owen; 26-04-2006 at 09:15 AM.

26-04-2006, 08:27 AM	#3 (permalink)
spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 7,942	Welcome Bedford82 and good luck with your quest. PS: The Australian flag worked once then none of the others would open. Now the Australian flag won't open either. This was the content for the Aussie contribution: Australia Most of the 1,100 officers and men of the Royal Australian Volunteer Naval Reserve taking part in Operation Neptune on D-Day served aboard British ships or as commanders of several landing flotillas and motor torpedo boats. Approximately 11,000 Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) officers and men served with Royal Air Force (RAF) or RAAF squadrons for every phase of D-Day. Australia also provided 15 percent of the 1136 aircraft committed by Bomber Command on D-Day. __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm Last edited by spidge; 26-04-2006 at 08:49 AM.

26-04-2006, 04:18 PM	#6 (permalink)
Gnomey Per Ardua Ad Astra Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK Posts: 2,931	Welcome to the forum Bedford, I have completed the survey for you. Good luck with your quest. __________________ "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few" Sir Winston Chuchill, Summer 1940 "To him the people of Britain and the free world owe largely the way of life they enjoy today" Ensciption on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-1940) Statue in London Aircraft of World War 2 Forum - A Warbird Forum

27-04-2006, 03:13 PM	#9 (permalink)
Kiwiwriter Very Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Newark, NJ, and Christchurch, NZ Posts: 2,443	Survey done! And good luck with it, Bedford! New Zealand's contribution is given below, from that page: New Zealand About 30,000 members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force were in Operation Overlord. Squadrons of New Zealand's fighters and bombers flew in every phase, the former performing with particular efficacy above Omaha Beach on D-Day. Some 4,000 officers and men of the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve also took part in Operation Neptune. On D-Day many of New Zealand's junior officers commanded either landing craft delivering troops to the British beaches or one of the numerous motor torpedo boats interdicting German E-boats. __________________ "My intensity is intense." -- Roger Clemens "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." -- Winston Churchill. "I am not a hero. The heroes are all dead. I am a survivor." -- Sgt. William Guarnere, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Check out my little contributions to World War II history at my web pages: World War II Plus 55 or http://davidhlippman.wildbillguarnere.com

26-04-2006, 09:14 AM	#4 (permalink)
Owen Top Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs Posts: 8,692	Aha under the other Flags. United Kingdom On D-Day the British Second Army composed of two corps (including three British divisions with auxiliary units and services - some 62,000 Britons) landed on and around Gold Beach, Sword Beach, and along the Orne River toward Caen. The UK provided about 80 percent of the Allied warships in Operation Neptune. The Royal Air Force flew 5,656 sorties in direct support of the landing. Air Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder served as Deputy Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force. The senior land, sea, and air commanders were British. Canada On D-Day about 15,000 troops serving in Canada's Third Infantry Division landed on Juno Beach under the operational control of the British 1st Corps. The Royal Canadian Air Force committed 39 strategic and tactical squadrons on D-Day, flying 230 sorties of the 1,200 mounted by Bomber Command. Nearly 10,000 officers and men (more than six times the strength of the Royal Canadian Navy in 1939) served aboard the 126 Canadian fighting ships, 44 landing craft among them, participating in Operation Neptune on D-Day.

26-04-2006, 04:01 PM	#5 (permalink)
bedford82 Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 3	As far as the memoiral goes it is in Bedford since that towm lost more men percentage wise than any other U.S community, 22 of 37 men were killed. It's really a beautiful place if you ever have the chance to visit. There are three parts to the memoiral depicting the planning, actual invasion, and victory. If you go to the website you asked about they have pictures. All 12 nations somehow involved in D-Day are represented with flags and plaques with the names of those who died during the invasion.

26-04-2006, 04:25 PM	#7 (permalink)
von Poop I Like Tanks. Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion. Posts: 7,682	Ayup, Survey done. Entry charge for a Memorial? Outrageous. Would they charge veterans? or family members?

26-04-2006, 07:20 PM	#8 (permalink)
Kitty Guest Posts: n/a	Wotcha dude! Done the survey, do i win anything? Charging for entry, i understand why as it would make it easier to maintain if there was a regular cashflow, but somehow for a memorial it rankles. Tricky question. Kitty

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