Pesawat tentera Amerika Syarikat lalat lebih satu majlis memperingati D-Day US-Jerman di penghormatan tentera udara pada 5 Jun, 2014 di Picauville, utara Perancis (A US military plane flies over a US-German D-Day commemoration ceremony in honour of airborne soldiers on June 5, 2014 in Picauville, northern France (AFP Photo/Jean-Sebastien Evrard)
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Nama kod Operasi Neptune, 6 Jun 1944 melibatkan beberapa pendaratan 175,000 tentera dan lebih daripada 5,000 kapal. Ribut tidak dijangka Hitler 'Kubu Eropah oleh tentera Bersekutu menyebabkan kematian kira-kira 4,000 pasukan Berikat. Sebanyak 9,000 Jerman juga kehilangan nyawa mereka dalam pertempuran yg membuka ke-2, Western Front, untuk membantu pertempuran Moscow terhadap Nazi Jerman.
D-Day Tribute: Rare Images Of Bravery and SACRIFICE . . .
The 70th anniversary of the largest seaborne invasion in written history and one of the turning points of WWII – the Normandy landings – is being marked in style and with tears of joy as people remember veterans’ bravery and sacrifice.
Codenamed Operation Neptune, June 6, 1944 landing involved some 175,000 troops and more than 5,000 ships. The unexpected storm of Hitler’s ‘Fortress Europe’ by the Allied troops resulted in the death of around 4,000 Allied forces. As many as 9,000 Germans also lost their lives in the battle which opened up the second, Western Front, to aid Moscow's battle against Nazi Germany.
7 dekad di semangat kemenangan di Eropah, adalah dicemari oleh ketegangan baru-baru ini sekitar krisis Ukraine. Kini, negara-negara sekali bersekutu adalah bertarung ia keluar untuk mengekalkan kestabilan di benua yang sekali lagi diancam oleh ideologi melampau.
Peringatan, mengambil tempat di jejak langkah sidang kemuncak G7, yang tidak termasuk Rusia dari kelab ke atas Ukraine, termasuk Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin. Di tengah-tengah perayaan, banyak mesyuarat rasmi telah memberi tumpuan kepada krisis Ukraine.
Tetapi walaupun ketegangan dalam hubungan, semangat pengorbanan, sekali dila-hirkan oleh beribu-ribu bersatu menentang ancaman yang sama, adalah kehadiran di pantai Normandy. Veteran D-hari dari Britain, Amerika Syarikat, Kanada, Australia, Perancis dan New Zealand akan disertai oleh 19 ketua negara untuk memperingati rasmi Jumaat.
Barisan Barat dibuka sebagai tentera Berikat mendarat di pantai 5 di seluruh pantai Normandy - nama kod Juno, Emas, Pedang, Omaha dan Utah - dan pada 6 Jun 1944, dibebaskan daripada Nazi pertama daripada banyak bandar-bandar di utara Perancis.
Seven decades on, the victorious spirit in Europe, is tainted by the recent tensions surrounding the Ukraine crisis. Now, once-allied nations are battling it out to preserve the stability on a continent that is again threatened by extreme ideology.
Commemorations, taking place on the footsteps of a G7 summit, which excluded Russia from the club over Ukraine, include Russian President Vladimir Putin. Amid the celebrations, many of the official meetings have focused on the Ukrainian crisis.
But despite strain in relations, the spirit of sacrifice, once born by thousands united against a common threat, is omnipresent on the Normandy beaches. D-day veterans from Britain, US, Canada, Australia, France and New Zealand will be joined by 19 heads of state for an official commemoration Friday.
The Western Front opened as Allied troops landed on five beaches across the Normandy coast – codenamed Juno, Gold, Sword, Omaha and Utah – and on June 6, 1944, liberated from Nazis first of many towns in northern France.
Tentera British berarak lalu bandar Bayeux, salah satu daripada bandar-bandar pertama yang dibebaskan dalam pendaratan Normandy (British soldiers march past the town of Bayeux, one of the first towns to be liberated in the Normandy landings. (AFP Photo)
Pada bulan-bulan sebelum pendaratan tentera Bersekutu menjalankan kem-pen penipuan mahir dan mendalam untuk memperdayakanorang-orang Jer-man, yang tahu serangan semacam mesti akan berlaku.
In the months prior to the landings Allied forces conducted a skillful and far reaching deception campaign to fool the Germans, who knew an invasion of some sort must be imminent.
LST Amerika Syarikat peralatan memunggah di pantai di Normandy Perancis selepas pencerobohan awal di Jun 6, 1944 (US LST unloading equipment on the beach in Normandy France after the initial invasion on the 6 June 1944 (AFP Photo)
Double Ejen memainkan peranan penting dalam meyakinkan orang-orang Jerman yang pendaratan Normandy berada pada tahap terbaik lencongan dari pendaratan utama ke utara berhampiran Calais dan sempadan Bel-gium. Sekutu-sekutu juga dipasang ribu tangki kayu dan getah dan kapal pendarat untuk memperdayakan pesawat peninjau Jerman.
Double agents played an important role in convincing the Germans that the Normandy landings were at best a diversion from the main landings further north near Calais and the Belgian border. The allies even assembled thousands of wooden and rubber tanks and landing craft to fool German spotter aircraft.
Askar Amerika Syarikat George Ciampa dalam Stutgart selepas penyerahan Jerman pada bulan Oktober 1945. Ini 89yo veteran yang mengambil bahagian dalam lima kempen di Eropah akan menghadiri acara peringatan ulang tahun ke-70 D-Day di Colleville-sur Mer (US soldier George Ciampa in Stutgart after Germany's surrender in October 1945. The 89yo veteran who took part in five campaigns in Europe will attend the 70th anniversary commemorations of D-Day in Colleville-sur Mer).
Hanya 10 hari pada setiap bulan adalah sesuai untuk operasi pendaratan sebagai bulan yang cerah dikehendaki bertepatan dengan arus musim bunga.
Only ten days in each month were suitable for the landing operation as a bright moon was required to coincide with a spring tide.
Cahaya bulan yang diperlukan untuk menerangi tanda untuk krew udara menjatuhkan tentera udara dan bekalan di belakang garisan musuh. Arus rendah adalah penting untuk mendedahkan halangan pertahanan, yang telah diletakkan oleh pasukan Jerman di pantai dan di dalam laut.
The moonlight was needed to illuminate landmarks for air crews dropping airborne troops and supplies behind enemy lines. The low tide was essential to expose defensive obstacles, which had been laid by German forces on the beaches and in the sea.
British WWII veteran Frederik Glover stands in a corn field as soldiers parachute down during a D-Day commemoration in northern France on June 5 2014 (British Perang Dunia II veteran Frederik Glover berdiri di ladang jagung sebagai tentera terjun ke bawah semasa memperingati D-Day di utara Perancis pada 5 Jun 2014 (AFP Photo/Thomas Bregardis)
Jack Schlegel, kini beliau dalam 90-an, suka untuk menggambarkan bagai-mana unitnya terjun ke kawasan luar Perancis pada Jun 1944.
Jack Schlegel, now in his 90s, loves to describe how his unit parachuted into the French countryside in June 1944.
Setelah 3 banduan-pd-perang kem dia juga masih ingat bagaimana dia, sebagai berusia 19 tahun skirmished dengan kuasa-kuasa Jerman sehingga kereta kebal musuh tiba dan dia ditangkap.
Having been to 3 prisoner-of-war camps he also remembers how he, as a 19-year-old skirmished with German forces until enemy tanks arrived and he was captured.
Veteran Perang DUNIA ke-II Jack W. Schlegel dilahirkan di Jerman, tetapi berjuang untuk rakyat Amerika (World War II veteran Jack W. Schlegel was born in Germany, but fought for the Americans (Reuters/Pascal Rossignol)
Komander Bersekutu merancang pendaratan untuk 5 Jun tetapi ditang-guhkan ia lebih keadaan cuaca yang kasar dan tidak sesuai untuk apa-apa operasi.
Allied commanders planned the landing for the 5 June but delayed it over weather conditions were rough and unsuitable for any operation.
Dengan hanya sedikit peningkatan cuaca pada 6 Jun sokongan udara ada-lah terhad dan tiada kerosakan serius yang boleh dilakukan untuk perta-hanan di Omaha dan pantai Juno yang membawa kepada kecederaan teruk.
With just a slight weather improvement on June 6 air support was limited and no serious damage could be done to the defenses on Omaha and Juno beach leading to severe casualties.
Enthusiasts sejarah memakai pakaian seragam tentera WW2 AS di D-Day pendaratan semula enakmen di Pantai Omaha dalam Vierville-Sur-Mer, di Pantai Normandy pada 5 Jun 2014 (History enthusiasts wearing WW2 US military uniforms in D-Day landing re-enactment on Omaha Beach in Vierville-Sur-Mer, on the Normandy Coast on June 5 2014. (Reuters/Pascal Rossignol)
Jerman percaya bahawa tidak pernah akan menjadi satu serangan di cuaca buruk tersebut. Ramai tentera dan pegawai mengambil masa beberapa hari kira dan pergi untuk hujung minggu, meninggalkan sekutu dengan sedikit pembangkang.
Satu-satunya pengecualian adalah Omaha Beach di mana sangat sedikit pergi mengikut perancangan dan tentera Amerika Syarikat yang dihadapi lebih keras daripada rintangan dijangka dan mengalami kecederaan berat.
Germans believed that there would never be an attack in such poor weather. Many troops and officers took a few days off and went away for the weekend, leaving the allies with little opposition.
The only exception was Omaha Beach where very little went according to plan and US soldiers faced stiffer than expected resistance and suffered heavy casualties.
Royal Marin mengambil bahagian dalam paparan semasa acara D-Day di Portsmouth 5 Jun 2014 (Royal Marines take part in a display during a D-Day event in Portsmouth June 5, 2014 (Reuters/Stefan Wermuth)
Tentera bersekutu pertama untuk tiba di Perancis adalah dari Bahagian Udara British ke-6, yang terjun di belakang garisan Jerman hanya selepas tengah malam pada 6 Jun 1944.
The first allied troops to arrive in France were from the British 6th Airborne Division, who were parachuted behind German lines just after midnight on 6 June 1944.
Bersekutu kuasa udara dan ketuanan adalah penting kepada kejayaan D-Day, dan dalam hal Luftwaffe sudah banyak lemah sebelum mendarat Normandy bermula.
Allied air power and supremacy was crucial to the success of D-Day, and in case the Luftwaffe was already much weakened before the Normandy landing began.
Tentera Udara Diraja pasukan aerobatik di UK, Red Arrows, melaksanakan semasa perayaan D-Day di Portsmouth pada 5 Jun 2014 (The UK's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, the Red Arrows, perform during D-Day celebrations in Portsmouth on June 5 2014 (Reuters/Stefan Wermuth)
Syarat-syarat untuk menjaga tapak pendaratan rahsia-terutamanya peni-puan untuk menggalakkan orang Jerman untuk menumpukan perhatian mereka yang terbesar di rantau ini daripada Pas de Calais-rumit kempen udara.
The requirements to keep the landing sites secret-particularly the deception to encourage the Germans to devote their greatest attention in the region of the Pas de Calais-complicated the air campaign.
Laluan wap berbentuk hati dibiarkan di langit selepas Red Arrows paparan kapal terbang pasukan Britain dilakukan semasa peringatan D-Day di Portsmouth di selatan England pada 5 Jun, 2014 (Heart shaped vapour trails are left in the sky after Britain's Red Arrows airplane display team performed during D-Day commemorations in Portsmouth in southern England on June 5, 2014 (AFP Photo/Carl Court)
Pengorbanan veteran D-Day 'masih teringat 70 tahun pada dan keturunan mereka seolah-olah telah belajar pelajaran.
The D-Day veterans’ sacrifices are still remembered 70 years on and their descendants seems to have learnt the lesson.
Veteran British 88-tahun D-Day Paul Butler pas bersama mural dinding di Arromanches-les-Bains di pantai Normandy dengan grafiti yang mengatakan "Tolonglag, tiada lagi perang" (An 88-year old British D-Day veteran Paul Butler passes along a wall mural at Arromanches-les-Bains on the Normandy coast with a graffiti saying “Please, no more war” (Reuters/Toby Melville)
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