Characteristics
Country : canada
Year : 2019
Face value : 2 dollars
Weight : 6.99g
Diameter : 28mm
Thickness : 1.8mm
Mint : Royal Canadian Mint (RCM)
Description
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$2 coin design with special theme:
Its fascinating coin design by Canadian artist Alan Daniel is charged with tense anticipation as Canadian soldiers peer out from their landing craft en route to Juno Beach. This compelling landing craft perspective extends beyond the inner core to the outer ring where naval and air forces support Allied landings. D-DAY / LE JOUR J is engraved above the soldiers' helmets. At the bottom, the words REMEMBER / REMEMBER flank 2019.
Did you know…
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"D-Day" is a military abbreviation to ensure that the dates of field missions remain secret. The letter "H" was also used for "hour", e.g. D-2 would mean two days before D-Day, while H+3 would indicate 3 hours after H-hour. It is unclear how the invasion of June 6, 1944 became known as "D-Day". Its official name was "Operation Neptune."
Innovative tanks were developed to ensure victory on D-Day and throughout the Normandy Campaign. The Sherman DD could swim; The Sherman Crab had a chain mail that rotated to detonate mines and destroy barbed wire; Churchill's coil lay on the sand; and the Churchill Fascine filled enemy trenches with brush.
Supplying troops after D-Day and throughout the Normandy Campaign was a massive task. Portable docking facilities were built to ensure that ships could deliver food, medical supplies, weapons and troops to the European continent. A long underwater pipeline called "Pluto" (Pipes Under the Ocean) was also built to transport fuel from England to Normandy.
D-Day in numbers:
- 80 kilometers of heavily defended Normandy coast was the target invasion zone on D-Day
- 5 German-occupied beaches were captured codenamed Sword, Gold (assigned to British forces), Juno (Canadian), Omaha and Utah (American)
- More than 450 Canadians parachuted inland before dawn on June 6 to flank the landings 14,000 Canadian troops came ashore as part of the 150,000 Allied assault forces
- Among the 7,000 Allied ships that supported the landings were 10,000 sailors and 110 ships of the Royal Canadian Navy (including destroyers, corvettes, minesweepers, landing ships and landing craft).
- 55 squadrons of the Royal Canadian Air Force won Battle Honor Normandy 1944 as part of an Allied Air offensive that included 4,000 bombers plus some 3,700 fighters and bombers attacking before D-Day, during the landings and during the campaign.
- 359 Canadians lost their lives on D-Day, with the total number of Canadian deaths rising to more than 5,000 by the end of the campaign.
