D-DAY! The Untold Story - Neil Earle - July-August 1984

Neil Earle

What was the key to Allied victory in World War II? More importantly, why are things now going so badly for the British and American peoples? June 6, 1944- just a brief 40 years ago this summer- was one of the decisive dates in history! On that day General Dwight D. Eisenhower from headquarters in southern England sent more than 250,000 Canadian, American and British soldiers across the treacherous Channel to commence a "Crusade in Europe." It was the greatest combined assault in history: more than 3,300 assault ships and landing craft supported by 11,400 aircraft, six battleships, 21 cruisers, countless destroyers, artificial harbors, down o grappling hooks and innumerable silk scarves with maps showing enemy positions. The stakes? Colossal. A bungled Allied invasion of the French coast would mean a chance for Hitler to withdraw troops from the West to meet the Russian onslaught; time, too, for the Nazis to perfect new superweapons like the V-I and V-2 missiles that were to terrorize London that same summer. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library