D-Day Atomic Bombings

Utah beach was the first location hit by the Luftwaffe in the initial moments of D-day. Not long after news would reach the other beaches of the bombing of Gold beach. Though immediate casualties were less severe than initially anticipated, morale was devastated and radiation plagued many of the flotillas. Aided by the wind patterns of the morning, the radiated winds swept the would-be reinforcements. Casualties in the following weeks numbered in the thousands. Some estimates ranged into the tens of thousands though reports were buried and unverifiable after the suspicious loss of the Operation Peppermint records in a string of fires immediately after occupation.