Juno Beach
The tanks were meant to float for a short distance as not to alert the Germans. Five of the six tanks sunk because of the storm the night before. The storm made the sea level rise higher and higher and made humongous waves crash against the ship. The tanks were waterproof, but too much went in them and the tanks submerged, taking 25 out of the 30 troops with it.
One of the six tanks survived as it came out of the water with the ship, the landing craft came in. George Mann was one of the people in it. His landing craft went in and hit a submerged tank. Because of this, the craft could not go as close to the shore as it was supposed to do. Mr.Mann and his friends were sent of the landing craft into a truck with water up to their waists. The truck drove into a shell crater and now, the water level was a George Mann's chin.
One of the six tanks survived as it came out of the water with the ship, the landing craft came in. George Mann was one of the people in it. His landing craft went in and hit a submerged tank. Because of this, the craft could not go as close to the shore as it was supposed to do. Mr.Mann and his friends were sent of the landing craft into a truck with water up to their waists. The truck drove into a shell crater and now, the water level was a George Mann's chin.
Successful or not?
The Canadian landings on the Juno Beach Sector of the Normandy coast were one of the most successful operations carried out on D-Day, 6 June 1944. Juno was the randomly chosen code-name for a five-mile stretch of coastline that included the villages of St. Aubin and Bernières and the small port town of Courseulles-sur-Mer. Hitler's "Atlantic Wall" was much less impressive in Normandy than on the Channel coast but the beach defences included a series of fortified resistance nests and an elaborate strong point at Courseulles where the Juno Beach Centre is located now.
Hitler and his generals neglected Normandy partly because of an elaborate British deception scheme that leaked information designed to reinforce their own ideas about the location of the attack. Hitler and his intelligence agencies thought that "Garbo," a British-controlled agent, was a reliable source of information on Allied intentions and continued to believe his reports about a second invasion front long after D-Day. The Allies were able to track the success of their deception thanks to Ultra, the top secret information obtained from decrypting the enemy's coded radio transmissions. Ultra provided regular updates on enemy strengths and locations, confirming hopes that the Normandy landings had a good chance of success if the enemy were taken by surprise.