Trivia Question - Normandy Beach Designations

[Michael Dorosh]

Primary colors: red, blue, yellow
Secondary colors: purple, green, orange
Plus brown and black
These are the colors included in a 8-count crayon pack.
And they also added white to the list of potential names.

No. But had the Marines been there, that would have been a terrific sounding snack.

 

[Ric of The LBC]

Primary colors: red, blue, yellow
Secondary colors: purple, green, orange
Plus brown and black
These are the colors included in a 8-count crayon pack.
And they also added white to the list of potential names.

Roy G Biv

 

[rottenroller]

Last guess. The individual who picked the colors green, white and red was Italian or was looking at an Italian flag at that time.

 

[Michael Dorosh]

Last guess. The individual who picked the colors green, white and red was Italian or was looking at an Italian flag at that time.

No. I may have been a bit too tongue in cheek. Answer is not related to any national flag, be it Algeria, Mexico, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Burundi, or Iran.

 

[rottenroller]

This is not a guess according to this website:

Why Red and Green?

I was recently taking a business group around the beaches of the Normandy Invasion and I was explaining the different code names for each of the beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. There i…

d-daybattletours.co.uk

As seen from the German point of view the sub sectors are green, white and red, left to right.
As seen from the Allies view approaching the beaches it is red, white and green, left to right.
A ship's lights are red, port or left side, green starboard or right, with a white light
indicating the centre of the ship.

 

[Michael Dorosh]

This is not a guess according to this website:

Why Red and Green?

I was recently taking a business group around the beaches of the Normandy Invasion and I was explaining the different code names for each of the beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. There i…

d-daybattletours.co.uk

As seen from the German point of view the sub sectors are green, white and red, left to right.
As seen from the Allies view approaching the beaches it is red, white and green, left to right.
A ship's lights are red, port or left side, green starboard or right, with a white light
indicating the centre of the ship.

Bingo.

The troops were being landed by naval crews. As it was explained to us, the easiest thing for a sailor to remember is that red is left, green is right. So for the sailors navigating into shore, it was a little extra bit of assistance.

The historian who asked the question of about a dozen or so of us army guys in Normandy got dumbfounded looks. Then he explained it and there was a collective 'oh yeah' when we realized what common sense it was.

Great link by the way. I wonder if Mr. Bechthold hadn't visited that one.

 

[jrv]

The American rule is, "red right returning." When you are heading to shore, the red buoy should be on the right/starboard (and the green on the left/port). But the europeans use the reverse, "Port is red." So if true, apparently the rule was the european one.

JR

 

[Michael Dorosh]

The American rule is, "red right returning." When you are heading to shore, the red buoy should be on the right/starboard (and the green on the left/port). But the europeans use the reverse, "Port is red." So if true, apparently the rule was the european one.

JR

It would be interesting to know what was said in the planning meeting, might be in some minutes somewhere. But it may have been much simpler than that. "Red light on left side of boat, red sector on left side of beach."

 

[Ric of The LBC]

Easy way to remember Port from Starboard: Left and Port both have 4 letters.

 

[Gordon]

Thank goodness somebody got smart and decided to substitute "port" for "larboard."

 

[dlazov]

Glad I was a tanker, front, left, right, rear and top, easy.

 

[Ric of The LBC]

Glad I was a tanker, front, left, right, rear and top, easy.

fyi, the bow is the pointy end

 

[TopT]

Easy way to remember Port from Starboard: Left and Port both have 4 letters.

yes, that is how i always remembered it as well

 

[Paul M. Weir]

All of which is possible, but there is also a specific - and practical - reason those colours were picked. I'd be surprised if @Paul M. Weir isn't aware of it.

Sorry to disappoint, but I haven't a clue.

Primary colors: red, blue, yellow
Secondary colors: purple, green, orange
Plus brown and black
These are the colors included in a 8-count crayon pack.
And they also added white to the list of potential names.

You have to be very careful when discussing primary colours. The eye has red, green and blue light receptors. Yellow is perceived by by the brain when both red and green receptors are activated, the particular hue depends upon the relative mix. Pigments act in a subtractive way. Cyan (IE blue) reflects both blue and green light absorbing red, yellow reflects both green and red light, absorbing blue, so when you mix yellow and cyan pigment the red and blue light are absorbed, reflecting only the green light.

To avoid confusion the two ways of specifying hues and shades are the additive light form of RGB - Red, Green and Blue or alternatively the subtractive (pigment) of CYMK - Cyan, Yellow, Magenta and Black. The use of cyan for a blue and magenta for a red pigment was to avoid confusion between the two systems.

 

[zgrose]

If you’re gonna go all technical, just call em photons. Light is so passé.

 

[pensatl1962]

Oops. Sorry Alex.

WHAT IS Chartreuse, Lilac and Rose'?

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