D-Day invasion

The Monowai returning to Portsmouth from a rehearsal of the D-Day invasion that took place in the Channel, off the Isle of Wight, between 21 and 28. April 1911. 

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Bohr stayed on in London for several more weeks. He was thus on hand for D-Day, Tuesday, June 6, 1944. The greatest amphibious assault ever attempted, Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander, called that invasion of Europe across the English Channel with an initial force of 156,000 British, Canadian and American soldiers supported by 1,200 warships, 1,500 tanks and 12,000 aircraft. By the time Bohr and his son left England at the end of the week to return to the United States the Allies had secured the invasion beaches and begun advancing inland with a force bolstered now to 326,000 men. The way home, Eisenhower instructed his armies, is via Berlin. ... 

May also saw the battalion undergo a two-and-a-half-week period of intensive training while attached to a field artillery group. There was no time for amphibious training before the invasion, and as a conse> quence the zd did not participate in the initial landings. Nor did the 86th Battalion receive assault training in time for D-day activity. 

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