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Operation Neptune-GOLD GIVEAWAY!
DIR By: MissTaken ID
Date: June 4, 2015, 2:53 pm
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Sponsored by wargaming, check out the wot forums for more
details. Sounds like a little D-Day research can earn anyone 500
GOLD!!
Here is the info:
On June 6, 1944, Allied soldiers set foot on the beaches of
Normandy to liberate Western Europe. Commonly known as 'D-Day,'
this military operation, the largest seaborne invasion in
history, was codenamed 'Operation Neptune.'
To reflect on this momentous event, we here at Wargaming are
holding a contest to encourage our players to learn more about
events of June, 1944 and give them a chance to win 500 !
The Rules:
Find a photo relating to Operation Neptune and write a
couple of paragraphs about the event
Submit your entry to the contest thread on the forum (opens
June 5)
Everyone who submits an entry that meets the criteria will
win 500
Participants will also have the chance to hear their submissions
read during a special livestream on Wednesday, June 10 at 14:00
PT (17:00 ET)!
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Re: Operation Neptune-GOLD GIVEAWAY!
DIR By: guest327
Date: June 5, 2015, 6:24 am
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I cannot find it on WOT WEBSITE??? ANYONE? CAN YOU POST THE
LINK...
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Re: Operation Neptune-GOLD GIVEAWAY!
DIR By: Guderian 9139
Date: June 5, 2015, 11:36 am
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it's there now right on top-left
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Re: Operation Neptune-GOLD GIVEAWAY!
DIR By: Guderian 9139
Date: June 5, 2015, 11:44 am
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okay I'm havin' a little trouble with this thing. WG is under
the impression that the Normandy invasion was code-named
Neptune.
haven't opened a book in years but i will go out on the
proverbial limb to say that the overall code name for this op
was OVERLORD
Neptune was the name for the seagoing op...5000 ships, largest
flotilla ever assembled and such
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Re: Operation Neptune-GOLD GIVEAWAY!
DIR By: guest327
Date: June 5, 2015, 12:00 pm
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Operation Overload was the WHOLE operation, Operation Neptune
was the Sea or ship part of the operation..really...
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Re: Operation Neptune-GOLD GIVEAWAY!
DIR By: AhBuaya
Date: June 5, 2015, 12:05 pm
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This might be more suitable for World of Ships?
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Re: Operation Neptune-GOLD GIVEAWAY!
DIR By: XBattleAxeX
Date: June 5, 2015, 12:44 pm
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--- Quote from: METALHELLIONx84 link ---
>
> Operation Overload was the WHOLE operation, Operation Neptune
was the Sea or ship part of the operation..really...
>
--- End Quote ---
Exactly.. and as such here is my forum submission:
HTML http://i.imgur.com/XOzRylj.png
June 6th, 1944: the largest fleet in history landed Eisenhower's
Allied army on the beaches of Normandy against Erwin Rommel's
Nazi German defenses. The story of the greatest naval armada
seen in world history is still not widely known. Operation
Neptune was the greatest naval operation ever undertaken,
especially if looked at from the number of ships involved - over
7,000.
How these troops got to the beaches; how the German defenses
were bombarded by gunfire; how the soldiers were reinforced; how
the wounded were evacuated back to England etc. all seems to be
overlooked.
The naval planners of Operation Neptune main focus was to place
a large number of Allied forces in mainland Europe. The land
based operations were left to the generals, but the admirals had
figure a way for troops and their equipment to be transferred
safely from Britain on to a very hostile shore. They had to find
enough suitable beaches and assemble enough ships to transport
the troops across the Channel. They also had to organize
protection for the convoys. Landing craft had to be prepared and
crews trained to deliver the troops and evacuate the wounded.
Even more ships had to be found to re-supply the troops that
were onshore. Then, when the assault phase was over, the US and
Royal navies had to continue to support the advance with larger
caliber guns, tanks etc.The engineers built new artificial
harbors and artificial breakwaters to land and off load the
supply ships. They also built a 60 mile fuel pipe line under the
ocean, These incredible accomplishment are generally
overshadowed by the land combat aspects of the invasion. When
people think of D Day, they think primarily of troops storming
the beaches and fighting their way inland. There is so much more
to the story.
I am a Process Control/Automation Engineer, this photo speaks to
me as a small example of the scope of this invasion. The
planning, logistics and execution of this invasion boggle my
mind, especially given the relatively short time frame in which
they managed to successfully accomplish this task.
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Re: Operation Neptune-GOLD GIVEAWAY!
DIR By: guest327
Date: June 5, 2015, 12:51 pm
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Yes, what Mr. Battleaxe said, History is cool, those who don't
learn from it are bound to repeat it...
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Re: Operation Neptune-GOLD GIVEAWAY!
DIR By: Guderian 9139
Date: June 5, 2015, 2:58 pm
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I always remember the following story about some poor bastard
who wrote crossword puzzles for the Telegraph
the crossword panic of May 1944
During World War II, newspapers such as the Telegraph played a
vital role in informing the population of the latest
developments on the home front and on the battlefields. In
addition, despite its reduced size during this time, the
Telegraph continued to print the popular daily crossword puzzle.
This no doubt provided a welcome break from the hardships of
wartime Britain and helped people pass the time in air-raid
shelters across the capital. However, during this time the
Telegraph's puzzles started attracting the attention of MI5,
Britain's counter espionage service.
Whilst completing the Telegraph's daily crossword, members of
MI5 came across a four letter word – Utah.
An innocuous enough word in itself, but a word full of meaning
to the men of the 4th US Assault Division. Utah was the code
name for the beach they were planning to take on D-Day.
In previous months the solution words Juno, Gold and Sword (all
code names assigned to the operation) had appeared but had not
sparked any interest from MI5. This was because they are common
words in crosswords.
MI5's curiosity was further aroused when the Telegraph printed
the clue 'Red Indian on the Missouri (5)'. The solution to this
was Omaha – code name for the D-Day beach to be taken by the 1st
US Assault Division.
Then on Saturday, May 27 Overlord appeared as a solution and
this was the code name for the whole D-Day operation. On May 30,
Mulberry was featured - the code name for the floating harbours
used in the landings; and finally, on June 1, Neptune was
included – code word for the naval assault phase.
The Telegraph had MI5's full attention now. Officers were sent
to interview Leonard Dawe, the Telegraph's crossword compiler
and creator of the offending puzzles. Dawe was headmaster of the
Strand School, which had been evacuated from London to
Effingham, Surrey.
MI5 officers confronted Dawe and demanded to know why he had
hidden these telling words within his crossword solutions. Years
later Dawe said: "They turned me inside out. They went to Bury
St Edmunds where my senior colleague Melville Jones (the paper's
other crossword compiler) was living and put him through the
works. But they eventually decided not to shoot us after all."
MI5 never found a satisfactory explanation; coincidence was used
as an explanation. However, as every solver knows an unsolved
puzzle is always intriguing, and since then clues have emerged.
Richard Wallington, a pupil at the Strand School in 1944 tells
that "...there is no doubt that boys heard these code words
being bandied about and innocently passed them on". This is
supported by another ex-pupil, Ronald French, who claimed that
he had learned of the code words from Canadian and American
soldiers camped close by the school, awaiting the invasion.
Seemingly, it had been Dawe's habit to invite pupils into his
study and ask them to fill out solutions in a crossword grid,
inventing the clues himself afterwards.
Surely, a backwards solution to a cunning conundrum!
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Re: Operation Neptune-GOLD GIVEAWAY!
DIR By: DangerAnt 007
Date: June 5, 2015, 5:14 pm
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Here is my contribution to the main forum contest, "Operation
Neptune."
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HTML http://i.imgur.com/RIs0wHx.jpg?1[/img][/center]
Spending all night huddled together in a boat at anchor ready to
jump out and meet the German army entrenched in the sands and
hills across the water. Along with 156,000 fellow allied
soldiers, sitting and waiting in landing craft just bobbing in
the ocean. Your home is across the globe along with family,
wives, children, and all your prized possessions, thousands of
miles from this place. There is nowhere to get away from the
noise and smells of battle, no television, no comfortable bed,
no place to take off the sweaty, stained leather boots, mildewed
from the ocean spray. You pull out your orders that dictated you
to be in this landing craft in the first place, sigh and return
them to your front pocket. It seems like just yesterday you
where back in the hayfield checking on the irrigation right
before your beautiful pregnant wife rang the dinner bell.
Sally and the little one are back home right now and all you
have is a crumpled, old picture that she gave you right before
the draft put you in boot camp. The drill Sargents blasted night
and day that this war was for the survival of America, that the
cruel dictator wanted to come and take everything you loved and
crush it, “Fight hard and you'll be back for Christmas!” they
said. Here in this LC bobbing, and rocking in the ocean on June
5, 1944 sure made Christmas seem like a long, long time from
now. You are sick and tired, emotionally, mentally, but yet
feverish to end the enemy who can take away Sally and the new
little one in her stomach. The Army also promised that after
this you would have plenty of money to take home and do with as
you please. Finally the new ditches could be dug, the bar
re-sided, and the leaky roof replaced so Sally would be proud of
the little homestead.
Finally after days of intense waiting that drug on like
eternity, the order was given to the 4,126 landing vessels to
proceed and attack the German forces. Thick black smoke filled
the air as monstrous diesel engines roared to life on
catastrophically huge battle ships and the tiny bobbing landing
craft. Airplanes roared overhead as 2,395 craft flew towards the
German front to support your landing. The officials called this,
Operation Neptune, you called this survival. The butterflies and
anxiety filled your stomach as the craft chugged towards the
inevitable. Suddenly, the great battleships roared their mighty
15 inch cannons towards the beach, explosions burst out in the
water next to your craft as the enemy returned fire. Bullets
ricochet off the hull as you grind slowly closer to certainty.
You clutch the old, torn picture of Sally as the craft slams
into the sand. The door drops, Sargent yells, “Attack!” You step
out into the water and...
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