group b under the command of field marshal erwin ramel, and the southern coast of france and the bay of biscayarmy group g. they had at their disposal about 380 thousand people, 160 aircraft, 49 submarines, 116 patrol ships, 34 torpedo boats and 42 artillery barshi. the operation was prepared for 3 months. at the end of may, beginning of june 1944, the landing troops were concentrated in... the assembly area, from where landing points for landing ships were successively advanced. initially, the landing date was set for june 5 , 1944, but then it was decided to postpone it for a day, waiting for better weather conditions. the operation consisted of two phases: the first was codenamed neptune, the second - cobra. operation neptune began on june 6, 1944 and ended on july 1. 1944, its goal was to conquer a bridgehead on the continent, which lasted until july 25. operation cobra was carried out by the allies immediately after the completion of the first phase. its goal is a breakthrough offensive across french territory. the fighting began late in the evening of june 5 with a massive night parachut

we've got this area of low pressure sitting across the bay of biscay at the moment. r the rest of this evening into tonight, then, most places looking dry, showers easing away. still quite cloudy and breezy with a few showers across northern parts of scotland. could be one or two misty patches toward central and southern england, perhaps. a relatively cool night for this stage injune with temperatures between 8—12 celsius in our towns and cities, a touch cooler in the countryside. so, a lot of dry weather through tuesday morning. variable amounts of cloud. let's just take a look down towards the southeast. there is that area of rain moving out of the channel islands, perhaps affecting east sussex and kent, for instance, as well. but away from that area, lots of sunshine around. more showers as we head north through the spine of the country, so the midlands, the pennines up towards central parts of scotland as well. a slightly brighter day, i think, for northern ireland compared to recent days, a bit more sunshine coming through here. still a northerly breeze blowing,

we've got this area of low pressure sitting across the bay of biscay at the moment. omorrow. for the rest of this evening into tonight, then, most places looking dry, showers easing away. still quite cloudy and breezy with a few showers across northern parts of scotland. could be one or two misty patches toward central and southern england, perhaps. a relatively cool night for this stage injune with temperatures between 8—12 celsius in our towns and cities, a touch cooler in the countryside. so, a lot of dry weather through tuesday morning. variable amounts of cloud. let's just take a look down towards the southeast. there is that area of rain moving out of the channel islands, perhaps affecting east sussex and kent, for instance, as well. but away from that area, lots of sunshine around. more showers as we head north through the spine of the country, so the midlands, the pennines up towards central parts of scotland as well. a slightly brighter day, i think, for northern ireland compared to recent days, a bit more sunshine coming through here. still a northerly breez

we've got this area of low pressure sitting across the bay of biscay at the moment. the southeast corner of england. so that's going to bring some rain through tomorrow. for the rest of this evening into tonight, then, most places looking dry, showers easing away. still quite cloudy and breezy with a few showers across northern parts of scotland. could be one or two misty patches toward central and southern england, perhaps. a relatively cool night for this stage injune with temperatures between 8—12 celsius in our towns and cities, a touch cooler in the countryside. so, a lot of dry weather through tuesday morning. variable amounts of cloud. let's just take a look down towards the southeast. there is that area of rain moving out of the channel islands, perhaps affecting east sussex and kent, for instance, as well. but away from that area, lots of sunshine around. more showers as we head north through the spine of the country, so the midlands, the pennines up towards central parts of scotland as well. a slightly brighter day, i think, for northern ireland compared to

settled weather over the next few days but not everywhere, an area of low pressure around the bay of biscaylear away fairly quickly, still cloudy with one or two spots of light rain across northern scotland but clear skies elsewhere, temperatures about eight to 12 for most of us to start the day tomorrow. a lot of dry weather i think through tuesday morning, but rain initially down towards the channel isles will push its way through the english channel to the far south—east, so likely to affect perhaps east sussex and kent, could be a bit further north or south, most other places looking right across southern england, a few showers for northern england, perhaps one or two for antrim and down, and some cropping up through central scotland as well. further north, chilly across the north of scotland, breeze coming from the north, bringing cloud and one or two spots of rain in the far north. the bulk of the showers will be down the spine of the country, from highland through the pennines, most other places looking largely dry. top temperatures looking 15 to 21, again a bit colder across the nor

we've got this area of low pressure sitting across the bay of biscay at the moment. rts of scotland. could be one or two misty patches toward central and southern england, perhaps. a relatively cool night for this stage injune with temperatures between 8—12 celsius in our towns and cities, a touch cooler in the countryside. so, a lot of dry weather through tuesday morning. variable amounts of cloud. let's just take a look down towards the southeast. there is that area of rain moving out of the channel islands, perhaps affecting east sussex and kent, for instance, as well. but away from that area, lots of sunshine around. more showers as we head north through the spine of the country, so the midlands, the pennines up towards central parts of scotland as well. a slightly brighter day, i think, for northern ireland compared to recent days, a bit more sunshine coming through here. still a northerly breeze blowing, and we will see these showers continuing through into the afternoon across scotland and through the spine of northern england, but i think either side of that,

the few that he have are all operating out of the bay of biscay and the ones who have the schnauzers which are the ones that could have made it maybe who shan't and into the bay of the seine to interfere with that fleet. they had them all bottled up. they just could not get out of the bay. escape. now, the other part is, as you know, the higgins boat drivers played a big role. one did earn the medal of honor and. a lot of them were killed. yes. the higgins. for those who don't know a name, for andrew jackson higgins, who had a plant opposite new orleans at algiers on the mississippi river, who designed and invented and built these by the tens thousands. these are the you all see and these are the ones at the drop front ramp. they're very disposable, almost like tissues because you can get one use out of them, maybe two by the third time around their wreck. but they're driven by navy crews and, navy crew of three, a coxswain and two machine gunners. and that coxswain, unlike the guys down there in a, you know below the thought line waiting shore throwing up on their boots, the coxswain

we've got this area of low pressure sitting across the bay of biscay at the moment. nts of cloud. let's just take a look down towards the southeast. there is that area of rain moving out of the channel islands, perhaps affecting east sussex and kent, for instance, as well. but away from that area, lots of sunshine around. more showers as we head north through the spine of the country, so the midlands, the pennines up towards central parts of scotland as well. a slightly brighter day, i think, for northern ireland compared to recent days, a bit more sunshine coming through here. still a northerly breeze blowing, and we will see these showers continuing through into the afternoon across scotland and through the spine of northern england, but i think either side of that, of a fair amount of dry and settled weather. it should dry up along the south coast after the earlier rain as well. temperatures up to around 16—21 celsius for most of us. now, we've got high—pressure that's trying to ridge in from the atlantic here as we head towards the middle of the week. so that shou