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D-Day stripes

sailor(Mountains&Ocean)
D-Day stripes were equal width black and white and wrapped around the wings and the rear fuselage of Allied aircraft. Shortly after the invasion, orders were sent to remove the stripes on the topside of the wings and rear fuselage, leaving the stripes on the underside of both. This was likely to reduce identification from above.   

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Last Updated: 2014-6-7
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  • 70th Anniversary of D-Day. -sailor(Mountains&Ocean); 2014-6-7 {1316} (#186@4096)
    70 years ago today, Canadian soldiers, together with allied forces, began a brutal ten-week battle against a powerful enemy. Cdn troops made it furthest inland that day, and the Allied forces were ultimately successful. But it came at a cost (340 Canadians gave their lives, and another 574 were wounded). Canadians played a major role in defeating Nazi regime and, in the process, forged a highly effective army. #DDay70

    • D-Day stripes -sailor(Mountains&Ocean); 2014-6-7 {1067} (#187@4096)
      D-Day stripes were equal width black and white and wrapped around the wings and the rear fuselage of Allied aircraft. Shortly after the invasion, orders were sent to remove the stripes on the topside of the wings and rear fuselage, leaving the stripes on the underside of both. This was likely to reduce identification from above.   

    • 37 RCAF squadrons participate in D-Day operations over Europe, including Hawker Typhoons. -sailor(Mountains&Ocean); 2014-6-7 {935} (#188@4096)
      Typhoons participated in Operation Overlord (invasion of Normandy or D-Day), attacking in several waves and targeting beach defences to clear the way for the ground troops. Spitfires flew overhead to protect the Typhoons flying at low-levels.

    • Canada's participation, by the numbers -sailor(Mountains&Ocean); 2014-6-7 {2175} (#189@4096)
      On June 6, 1944, Canada participated as a full partner with the United States and the United Kingdom in the greatest amphibious invasion in history. Code-named Operation Overlord, but generally known as D-Day, thousands of Canadians were among the army, navy and air force contingents who participated in the invasion.

      By the numbers: 

      • Some 14,000 Canadians were among the nearly 150,000 Allied troops who landed and parachuted along the invasion area. 
      • More than 6,000 Allied vessels left English ports on 5 June 1944, bound for Normandy.
      • Allied naval forces, which included 110 Canadian warships and 10,000 sailors, supported the Normandy landings.
      • Royal Canadian Air Force squadrons helped control the skies over Normandy and attacked targets
      • On that day, Canadians suffered 1074 casualties, including 359 killed

      D-Day landing photograph by James Grant, Ordinary Telegraphist, Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve
      CWM 20020039-001
      George Metcalf Archival Collection

    • The first nursing sisters of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps to land in France after D-Day. France, July 17, 1944. -sailor(Mountains&Ocean); 2014-6-7 {262} (#190@4096)

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