https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6 Note: this book takes place from six different perspectives: Dee (Green), Samira (Blue), James (Red), Bill (Orange), Henry (Black), and Monique (Purple) en-us 2021-03-13 20:35:35 UTC 2024-11-21 22:47:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/516300689/8f72725281656baed94b9a8a74593942/unnamed.png connersloan https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1312739530 Dee Carpenter, a German who escaped the horrors of the Nazis in Germany, was on his way to Omaha Beach. While waiting for the Higgins Boat to land on shore, his friend, a Jew named Sid, start talking about baseball to avoid the imminent doom that awaited them on shore.Even before their boat reached shore, some German Artillery started to pick off the boats. Luckily, they reach shore. ]]> 2021-03-15 20:31:01 UTC https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1312739530 connersloan https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1312822748 Samaria Zidane and her Mother are spies working for the French Resistance. Although they are French-Algerian, both the French and the Algerians share a common hatred for their German occupiers. They were to deliver a crucial message to the Resistance: the Invasion of France would begin soon, and that the Rebels needed to sabotage as much railways and comms as possible in the area. However, Samaria's mother tried to help a couple that was arrested and got caught. Samaria hid from the German troops by hiding in a dog house with a tiny dog. Samaria escaped with the dog in tow and continued her mother's mission. She eventually found the resistance when two of them were posing as Nazi guards on a bridge.]]> 2021-03-15 20:59:41 UTC https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1312822748 connersloan https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1312892354 After Samaria tells the resistance the message, they ask her to leave so they can get to work. However, she wanted to do anything that might help save her mom, so eventually they put her with a team to sabotage comms and a railroad. While sneaking up on the Station attendant nearby, the dog that had followed her ran into the attendant. Thankfully he was a WW1 veteran and hated the Germans as well. Before they could sabotage a tunnel nearby, a train full of tanks sneaks through. The man from the resistance who was watching her, Jason, sacrificed his life to pull the rails up just in time. Right before the Resistance leaves, Samaria noticed paratroopers coming down overhead, a sign that the invasion was underway.]]> 2021-03-15 21:26:54 UTC https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1312892354 connersloan https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1312938964 James McKay, a Lance Corporal from the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion from Winnipeg, was in one of the first planes to fly over Normandy. His division was in charge of taking the Merville Battery and to disarm their Howitzer. Right before he jumps, his friend, Sam, asked why he joined the army. James responded that Winnipeg was invaded by the Nazis on If-Day.]]> 2021-03-15 21:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1312938964 connersloan https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1317125196 Three years earlier, in order to convince people to volunteer  and by War Bonds, the Canadian government decided to "simulate" what would happen in the Germans invaded. However, James was busy trying to escape his school's bully. Before he could catch James, a whole bunch of kids that were tired of being tormented by him teamed up and made him go away. This made James eager to enlist, since the Allies would be stronger as one instead of in many parts.   ]]> 2021-03-16 17:51:42 UTC https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1317125196 connersloan https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1317168919 Although landing far away from his drop zone, James landed without any bullet holes. Since he was too far away from his required target, his new assignment was to take the enemy headquarters at Varaville. In Varaville, the enemies were encamped in some trenches with a small Howitzer. While trying to disable the heavy gun with a P.I.A.T., James' commander and two other soldiers got caught in a huge explosion (a heavy gun shell and a few anti-tank rounds don't mix well). James, now in charge, stuck a mortar in a tree and shot it at the Howitzer bunker. Not only did it destroy the gun, but he was able to shoot at some machine gun posts before the enemy surrendered. Although outnumbered three to one, James and the paratroopers were victorious.]]> 2021-03-16 17:59:24 UTC https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1317168919 connersloan https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1323167946 The second the boat reached the shore, a majority of the troops were slaughtered by machine guns, mortars, and snipers. Instead of landing on the actual shore, the boat had hit a sandbank, forcing the survivors to swim to shore. Dee was constantly worried since Sid was nowhere in sight. He was held up behind a Czech Hedgehog granting him partial cover from the machine guns. The closest cover was behind a sand dune thirty yards away, but Dee had to make a run for it because another soldier was tasked with destroying the Hedgehogs in order to let tanks through. At Omaha beach, in the area of D-day with the most casualties, he wondered why the troops had no artillery and who put him and his fellow men in a slaughterhouse.]]> 2021-03-18 00:08:39 UTC https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1323167946 connersloan https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1323281855 Private Bill Richards, the driver of the Sherman tank Achilles was itching to get some action on the beaches of Normandy. The son of a tank driver from the previous World War, he  was hoping to have a chance to look at the Bayeux tapestry, something that his father had described in detail in his journal. Their division of tanks, along with the Coventry's Revenge and the Valiant, had  drifted too far away from Gold beach and were going to end up on Omaha. Once they landed, the Coventry's Revenge was immediately destroyed. Right before they shot the bunker that encased the heavy gun, a mine destroyed their left tread.]]> 2021-03-18 00:49:57 UTC https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1323281855 connersloan https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1323547235 Although they tried to shoot at the German encampment, their turret was angled too low to do any damage. Bill came out of the tank and noticed that there were a dozen American troops hiding behind the tank, and each of them had a shovel. Bill got them to dig until the bunker was in range, and destroyed it. Right before the Americans advance, he asks them to look at the Bayeux Tapestry.]]> 2021-03-18 02:32:02 UTC https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1323547235 connersloan https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1323621131 Dee was among those soldiers that helped dig, ad as he advanced behind the cover of the Valiant, another heavy gun nearby destroyed the Achilles. They were closing in on the Seawall.]]> 2021-03-18 03:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1323621131 connersloan https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1323666923 Corporal Henry Allen, a black medic, set up the first medic tent in his area. Already he was having to pull bullets out of soldiers, a procedure he wouldn't have normally done except the medic ships were more than likely to be late, due to the beach's condition. One of his first patients, Georgia Lieutenant Richard Hoyte, was one of the officers that constantly mistreated him during boot camp. He foot was destroyed by a mine, and need an amputation. Although Henry didn't have a saw, he was able to stop the bleeding and give the Lieutenant some morphine until the medic ships could arrive]]> 2021-03-18 03:24:35 UTC https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1323666923 connersloan https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1323760114 Behind a hedgehog, Henry found two soldiers. One only had minor injuries while the other had blue fingers and was wheezing heavily. Shrapnel hit him right in the chest, but it did not puncture. Although Henry diagnosed him with a collapsed lung, but his friend wouldn't let Henry touch him until he got a second opinion. So in the middle of a warzone, they had to pull aside another medic (who reached the same conclusion) to be able to operate to the soldier. ]]> 2021-03-18 04:16:54 UTC https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1323760114 connersloan https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1323896650 Dee had made it to the seawall, but watched in horror as hundreds of others got slaughtered along the coast. It was in the early afternoon, and still tha beach was nowhere near being captured. One of the Higgins boats just dropped off its troops right as a machine gun mowed all but one of them down. That one man stumbled his way until he narrowly avoided being blown to bits by an artillery shell. At this point. A few feet from the safe zone, however a sniper shot him right through the heart. Dee risked his life to bring the body of the Lucky Soldier back to the wall, saying that it wasn't right that the man never made it. Afterward, Dee was able to find Sid for the first time since they had gotten on the beach. For now, the two were safe.]]> 2021-03-18 05:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1323896650 connersloan https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1328254798 Once there was about thirty soldiers at the seawall, they started to take the German pillboxes. Since a majority of the men in the bunkers were lightly armed, Dee and the other troops captured the bunker with few casualties. Sid was angry that he didn't have a chance to kill any Nazi's, but they moved on to the villages around Normandy.]]> 2021-03-19 01:50:26 UTC https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1328254798 connersloan https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1328290932 As the American troops headed to the closest town, they realized that the Village was abonded. Suddenly, a German tank appeared from one of the allies, insighting an ambush. The americans but together a makeshift anti-tank bomb out of some C4 and a grenade. Dee volunteered to make a run to the panzer to destroy it. Catching the panzer off guard, Dee was able to plant the bomb and slide under the tank for a little cover. The bomb worked, blowing off a tread, although it took Dee a moment to recover from the shock. Before he got up, he heard some men talking in German. They said that they had orders to burn the church, where the women and children were taking shelter, as a reparation for the sabotage the resistance had done. ]]> 2021-03-19 02:05:23 UTC https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1328290932 connersloan https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1328455804 Dee was able to slip away from the tank crew, and told Sid. The two went to the church, and noticed several women and children huddled in a corner behind some wreckage. Sid aim his rifle at Dee, and Dee thought that he was going to shoot him for being German. Instead, Sid shot at some debris so they could get to the people in the church. After the Nazis in the town surrendered, Sid was put in charge of some prisoners, but started yelling at them and reloaded his gun. Dee tried to calm him down, but after yelling at one of the Germans to shut up Sid aimed his gun right at him. Sid threatened to shoot him if he didn't leave. While Dee walked away, a bullet hit him in the back.]]> 2021-03-19 03:18:24 UTC https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1328455804 connersloan https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1328456143 Monique Marchand, a girl who got trapped in her beach hut during the Normandy invasion trying to get her bathing suit, was stuck for twelve hours hiding until she finally stopped hearing explosions. When she finally got the courage to go outside, she saw that the entire beach was littered with bodies. One of them started moaning for a medic. She was able to drag him to the beach hut, and began to do whatever she could for him. he had a light bullet wound in the arm, but another shot had shattered his femur. SHe made a tourniquet out of his belt  and some bandages from his shirt to help stop the bleeding. Eventually she got caught by a medic. The medic was actually Dorothy Powell, a reporter who snuck on one of the boats as a medic to see the battle firsthand. The two were able to lift the man back to an actual Medic tent. At first Monique was worried that she would be in trouble for getting involved, but the men hand there hands full to do anything other than work. Instead, Dorothy asked her if she wanted to help her bandage the injured men. The two kept on working until they had blisters all over their hands. ]]> 2021-03-19 03:18:35 UTC https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1328456143 connersloan https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1328456569 Eventually the two were caught by the Commander of post-invasions operations, so they snuck on a truck to Bayeux. While riding, Monique noticed a wounded soldier in the middle of a minefield. Thankfully, she remembered some German troops playing in that field the day before and the sign was only used to scare people away. The unconscious soldier was Dee.]]> 2021-03-19 03:18:48 UTC https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1328456569 connersloan https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1328456821 Once Dee woke up, he realized he was in a bed at Bayeux. There were hundreds of American and British troops in the city, and the French people gave them a huge celebration for the beginning of the liberation of France. Since Dee was severely injured in the shoulder, he was going to be sent home, but he still wanted to take the fight to Berlin. A while later Sid came to his bed. Sid told Dee that he never had the courage to kill the Germans, and a sniper had shot him in the shoulder. Sid promised that he would make it to Berlin for Dee, and they every man in Bayeux, whether French, British, Canadian, or American, shared a common goal to protect the free world. They were all stronger together.]]> 2021-03-19 03:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/connersloan/mzqm636e9syeegg6/wish/1328456821