Posted on 06/11/2015 6:12:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
Seventy-one years ago, the British, Canadians and Americans landed on the Normandy beaches to open a second ground front against Nazi Germany.
Operation Overlord -- the Allied invasion of Western Europe -- proved the largest amphibious operation in military history, dwarfing even Xerxes' Persian invasion of Greece in 480 B.C.
Brilliant planning, overwhelming naval support, air superiority and high morale ensured the successful landing of 160,000 troops on the first day -- at a cost of about 4,000 dead.
Three weeks after the June 6 landings, nearly a million Allied soldiers were ashore, heading eastward through France. Hitler's once-formidable Third Reich seemed on the verge of collapse. On the Eastern Front, the German army was imploding under the weight of 5 million advancing infantrymen of Russia's Red Army. At the same time, Allied four-engine bombers, with superb long-range fighter escorts, at last were beginning to destroy German transportation and fuel infrastructure.
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Well ricmc2175 does have a Ph.D. and a 178 IQ. Didn’t he tell you? Which means he is instantly the authority on any subject.
Facts bother you when they refute your insults? Right!
Eisenhower was a political general, but that's exactly what was required in that job. There were incredible tensions between the Americans and the Brits, and I doubt there was another American who could have held them together as well as Eisenhower did, given the vast array of prima donna generals and politicians on both sides. Montgomery actually came up to him on VE Day and apologized, sort of.
I blew through the Atkinson trilogy last year, and the ONLY guy I came away with a heightened opinion of was Eisenhower.
Facts? You haven’t provided a fact yet!
Sort of figured that. IAC, At 82 I cannot be offended by being called “rude”.
However, I am offended by giving credit for winning the war in the Pacific to some dogface general.
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