1944
On D-Day, June 6, 1994, allied armies landed in Normandy on the northwestern coast of France, possibly the most critical event of World War II took place, the outcome of this event would determine the fat of Europe. If the invasion failed, the United States, being out of resources, might turn its full attention to the enemy in the pacific, Japan, leaving Britain alone, with most of its resources during the invasion. That would enable Nazi Germany to concentrate all its strength against the Soviet Union. By the time the U.S. came back Europe, Germany would rule the entire continent. Although fewer Allied ground troops went ashore on D-Day than on the first day of the earlier invasion of Sicily, the invasion of Normandy was in total, history’s greatest amphibious operation, involving on the first day
It was 4 pm on D-Day before Hitler at last approved the deployment of two panzer divisions. Allied deceptions had been remarkably effective and because Hitler had been sleeping and was then slow to carry out any action, German power that could have been a victory was held up. The rest of the armored reserve in France-five divisions-and the 19 divisions of the large Fifteenth Army in the Pas de Calais, stood a still feeling that the main invasion was still to come. D-Day was a huge achievement for British, Canadian and American fighting men. 5,000 ships, the largest armada ever assembled, 11,000 aircraft and approximately 154,000 British, Canadian and American soldiers, including 23,000 arriving by parachute and glider. The invasion also involved a plan on a scale the world had never seen and
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