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D-Day

When on D-Day-June 6, 1944-Allied armies landed in Normandy on the northwestern

coast of France, possibly the one most critical event of World War II unfolded; for upon the

outcome of the invasion hung the fate of Europe. If the invasion failed, the United States might

turn its full attention to the enemy in the Pacific-Japan-leaving Britain alone, with most of its

resources spent in mounting the invasion. That would enable Nazi Germany to muster all its

strength against the Soviet Union. By the time American forces returned to Europe-if indeed,

they ever returned-Germany might be master of the entire continent.


Although fewer Allied ground troops went ashore on D-Day than on the first

invasion of Sicily, the invasion of Normandy was in total history's greatest amphibious operation,

involving on the first day 5,000 ships, the largest armada ever assembled; 11,000 aircraft

(following months of preliminary bombardment); and approximately 154...

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