Things They DON'T Teach You About D-DAY
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A battleship that sank itself, a female reporter who snuck onto the beach, fake paratroopers fooling the Nazis, secret mini-subs scouting the shores, and an underwater pipeline powering the invasion — here are 5 surprising stories from D-Day you’ve probably never heard.
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Further Reading:
USS Texas
History. Battleship Texas. Accessed 14/12/2024.
https://battleshiptexas.org/education/history/
Operation Torch. Britannica. Accessed 14/12/2024.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Operation-Torch
The USS Texas (BB-35) Was Intentionally Flooded During D-Day. War History Online. Accessed 14/12/2024.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/uss-texas-d-day.html
The USS Texas flooded itself…on purpose. We Are The Mighty. Accessed 14/12/2024.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/uss-texas-flooded-on-purpose/
Martha Gellhorn
Flint and Steel: The Tumultuous Marriage of Martha Gellhorn & Ernest Hemingway. Literary Ladies Guide. Accessed 14/12/2024.
https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/literary-musings/marriage-of-martha-gellhorn-ernest-hemingway/
Martha Gellhorn: Eyewitness to War. The National WW2 Museum. Accessed 14/12/2024.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/martha-gellhorn-eyewitness-war
There is a point where you feel so small and helpless in an enormous, insane nightmare of a world that you cease to give a hoot and start laughing'. The Guardian. Accessed 14/12/2024.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/may/28/secondworldwar.features116
Operation Titanic
What were Rupert parachute dummies?. The D-Day Story. Accessed 15/12/2024.
https://theddaystory.com/discover/blog/what-were-rupert-parachute-dummies/
The X-Craft
Operation Gambit: Britain’s D-Day X-Craft. Historic UK. Accessed 15/12/2024.
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/D-Day-X-Craft/
How The Royal Navy's X-Class Midget Subs Helped Make D-Day Possible. Jalopnik. Accessed 15/12/2024.
https://jalopnik.com/how-the-royal-navys-x-class-midget-subs-helped-make-d-d-1709530716
X-craft midget submarines. COPP Survey. Accessed 15/12/2024.
https://www.coppsurvey.uk/xcraft
Operation Pluto
Krammer. Arnold. 1992. Operation PLUTO: A Wartime Partnership for Petroleum. Technology and Culture. 33:3. Accessed 15/12/2024.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3106633?read-now=1
Operation Pluto. D-Day Revisited. Accessed 15/12/2024.
https://d-dayrevisited.co.uk/d-day-history/planning-and-preparation/operation-pluto/
PLUTO system. Musée du Débarquement. Accessed 15/12/2024.
https://musee-arromanches.fr/en/collection/systeme-pluto/
Timestamps
Intro: (00:00)
The Battleship That Sunk Itself On Purpose: (00:22)
Fake Scarecrow Invasion: (02:13)
The Woman Who Snuck In D-Day: (04:48)
Mini-Sub Attack: (06:18)
Gas Pipeline Under The Sea: (08:06)
Outro: (09:28)
Credit:
Simple History Creator: Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
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