Doug, one addition:
Aides to Gen. Eisenhower told the Times anonymously that Gen. Eisenhower has no exit strategy, a fatal flaw in Overlord. Some retired military men (one, at least, a marine who won medals in the First World War) suggest that Gen. Eisenhower should call off the invasion because it may lead to terrible losses among the Allied troops. He said that the United States military can do no further good on the Continent and should be brought home to guard the home front.
Gen. Bernard Montgomery, hero of El Alamain in North Africa, agreed with this sentiment. "Monty" defeated Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (Germany's "Desert Fox") in tank warfare beginning at El Alamain in Egypt. He drove Rommel and his troops from North Africa.
Gen. Montgomery has been rather vocal in his belief that he should have been chosen to lead Operation Overlord rather than Gen. Eisenhower. He said that he is prepared to lead the remaining Allied armies to victory in Europe if the United States withdraws its troops. General Patton is rumored to have snorted "Montgomery has no exit strategy, either".
There is substantial feeling in the Congress, particularly among some who served valorously with the AEF in the First World War, that the troops should be brought home. FDR is being blamed for many of the losses, along with Winston Churchill.
Patriotism certainly has changed in 60 years.
Aides to Gen. Eisenhower told the Times anonymously that Gen. Eisenhower has no exit strategy, a fatal flaw in Overlord. Some retired military men (one, at least, a marine who won medals in the First World War) suggest that Gen. Eisenhower should call off the invasion because it may lead to terrible losses among the Allied troops.
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General Patton is rumored to have snorted "Montgomery has no exit strategy, either".
There is substantial feeling in the Congress, particularly among some who served valorously with the AEF in the First World War, that the troops should be brought home. FDR is being blamed for many of the losses, along with Winston Churchill.
There's no question that the entry into WW II was done under false pretenses. Japan never threatened the US mainland; Germany never declared war on the US.
The war was about US commercial interests. The League of Nations did not endorse the war. Nor did the Mufti of Jerusalem, Pierre Laval, Father Coughlan or Tokyo Rose. The war was illegitimate and illegal.