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)
bOLLy ENn - Ulang
tahun ke-70 serangan melalui laut yang terbesar dalam sejarah bertulis dan
salah satu titik perubahan Perang DUNIA ke-II - pendaratan Normandy - sedang
ditandakan dalam gaya dan dengan air mata kegembiraan sebagai orang ingat
keberanian veteran dan pengorbanan.
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 yang
membuka kedua, 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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