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President Barack Obama USA, Prince Charles, Prime Minister Gordon Brown UK, President Sarcozi France remember D-day in Normandy on 060609.
Remembrance
of D–Day in France
on 06-06-2009 It
is better to elaborate what D-Day is. The term is for the day of actual
landing, which was dependent on final approval. The Normandy Landings were
the first operations of the Allied Invasion of Normandy, also known as Operation
Neptune and Operation Overload. Operation RAJENDER
SINGH SANDHU,
Pilot Officer, 2915, 53 O.T.U., Royal Indian Air Force. 10 September 1944.
Age 21. Son of Hakam Singh, of Pakhopur, SINGH,
Flying Officer, JAGIT, Royal Indian Air Force. 13 September 1946. Age 25.
Son of Sarder Bahadur Santokh Singh. Panel 286. Canadian
airborne troops landed shortly after midnight, and an amphibious landing
of Allied infantry and armored divisions including many Sikh Regiments on
the coast of British
6th Airborne Division. British
I Corps, British 3rd Infantry Division, British 27th
Armored Brigade, British XXX Corps, British 50th Infantry
Division, British 8th Armored Brigade, 79 Armored Division. Some
of the Canadian Divisions participated in the operation are Canadian 3rd
Infantry Division, Canadian 2nd Armored Brigade and rest were
American Divisions. The
total number of troops landed on D-Day was around 160,000 ·
By the end of 11 June (D + 5), 326,547 troops, 54,186
vehicles and 104,428 tons of supplies. ·
By June 30th (D+24) over 850,000 men,
148,000 vehicles, and 570,000 tons of supplies. · By July 4th one million men had been landed. ·
Allied land forces that saw combat in The Invasion Fleet was drawn from 8 different navies, comprising 6,939 vessels: 1,213 warships, 4,126 transport vessels (landing ships and landing craft), and 736 ancillary craft and 864 merchant vessels. They were under the command of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay (who had been directly involved in the North African and Italian landings where many Sikh Regiments were also involved).
Living
Sikh Soldiers of 2nd World War Sikhs
have fought in Also
,they have fought in : Mediterranean,
Middle East and African theatres of World War II ·
Greece ·
Cyprus ·
Indonesia
Some
of the specimen are given below : France: CHAMPENOUX
COMMUNAL CEMETERY - Meurthe-et-Moselle Commonwealth War Dead 1939-1945
Commonwealth War Dead 1939-1945 AMAR
SINGH,
Sepoy, 16852. 4th Bn. 11th Sikh Regiment. 11th May 1944. Age 22. Son of
Badan Singh and Uttam Kaur, of Manupur, DURNBACH
CREMATION MEMORIAL, BALWANT
SINGH,
Sepoy, MTN/898669, Royal Indian Army Service Corps. 14 March 1945. Age 23.
Son of Sohan Singh and Jamna Devi, of Kotli Squianwali, BANTA
SINGH,
Havildar, 8110, 4th Bn., 16th
AJIT
SINGH, Lance Naik, 15127. 1st Bn. 12th. Frontier Force Regiment. 22nd May
1944. Age 23. Son of Tam Singh and Rattan Kaur; husband of Gurbakhsh Kaur,
of Jatpur, Mahilpur, AMAR SINGH, Sepoy,
701, Nabha Akal Infantry, Indian States Forces. 10 May 1944. Son of Bishan
Singh, of Sakohan, BACHAN SINGH, Sepoy,
1270, Nabha Akal Infantry, Indian States Forces. 5 October 1943. Son of
Partap Singh, of Chehal, CHETA SINGH, Sepoy,
609, Nabha Akal Infantry, Indian States Forces. 30 September 1942. Son of
Bakhtawar Singh, of Balad Kalan, MUKAND SINGH, Sepoy,
MTN/919461, 10th Indian Inf. Bde. Transport Coy., Royal Indian Army
Service Corps. 22 September 1943. Age 26. Son of Jamial Singh, of Ralla
Phekhi, SUCHA SINGH, Sepoy,
10205, 2nd Bn., 15th UJAGAR SINGH, Sepoy,
13351, 2nd Bn., 15th RABAUL
(BITA PAKA) HARNAM SINGH, Naik,
9732, 2nd Bn., 15th In
Memory of Al
Amein In
Memory of In the last
two world wars 83,005 turban wearing Sikh soldiers were killed and 109,045
were wounded. They all died or were wounded for the freedom of For more information on the subject, please read
the links and my books below. WSN-Special
Report-Two World Wars and the Sikhs WSN-Special
Report-World War I through Sikh Soldiers' Letters WSN-Column-Turban
versus Helmet Memorial:
Sikh Casualties of World War I Memorial:
Sikh Casualties in Italy
1) How Europe is indebted to the
Sikhs, Role of Sikhs in 2) How Europe is indebted to the
Sikhs, Role of Sikhs in 3) The Dutch Sikhs – A Brief
History. The
books can be obtained from ‘Singh Brothers, Bazar Mai Sewan, Siri
Amritsar’, It
is unfortunate that India from where these brave men came, specially from
United Punjab ( Sikhs and Muslims ) and fought both World Wars for the
freedom of mankind don’t recognize their supreme sacrifices. Actually, this is the work and duty of a country
to cash and promote the sacrifices of their nationals. What has been done
so far that the whole world should know and glorify the Sikhs and Muslims
for their unparallel contribution to the International Community?
Where are the families of these martyrs of
mankind and what has been done for them? On the other hands, Sacrifices of
Europeans, Americans, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders and others
have been well recognized by International Community and by their
respective governments and
proper respect and assistance is still being provided. Their families are
invited and honored on 11 November - Armistice Day,
6 June - the D- Day, 5 May- the Liberation day. This is a big
question. As
far as the Sikhs are concerned, When
our own people don’t mention and speak about the glorious history of the
Sikhs, why people like President Obama or others will mention and remember
their contributions. These questions needs consideration and to be
answered. Bhupinder
Singh Holland Almere,
09 June 2009
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