Dwight David Eisenhower (1890 – 1969) 

On June 6, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight
D. Eisenhower gave the go-ahead for the largest amphibious
military operation in history: Operation Overlord, the Allied
invasion of northern France, commonly known as D-Day.

By daybreak, 18,000 British and American parachutists were
already on the ground. 

An additional 13,000 aircraft were mobilized to provide air
cover and support for the invasion. At 6:30 a.m., American
troops came ashore at Utah and Omaha beaches.

The National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia.

The operation began the liberation of France and the rest of
Western Europe, and laid the foundations for the Allied
victory on the Western Front.

On May 19, 1943, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt plotted the cross-Channel
landing that would become D-Day—May 1, 1944.

That date will prove a bit premature, as bad weather becomes
a factor.

Addressing a joint session of Congress, Churchill warned that
the real danger at present was the “dragging-out of the war at
enormous expense” because of the risk that the Allies would
become “tired or bored or split”—and play into the hands of
Germany and Japan.

He pushed for an early and massive attack on the “underbelly
of the Axis.”

To “speed” things up, the British prime minister and President
Roosevelt set a date for a cross-Channel invasion of Normandy,
in northern France, for May 1, 1944, regardless of the problems presented by the invasion of Italy, which was underway.

It would be carried out by 29 divisions, including a Free French
division, if possible.

The D-Day invasion ended up taking place on June 6, 1944.

             
CAMILLE BOHANNON

Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.

On May 19, 1943, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt plot the cross-Channel
landing that would become D-Day—May 1, 1944.

That date would prove a bit premature, as bad weather
became a factor.

The D-Day invasion ended up taking place on June 6, 1944.

    
CAMILLE
BOHANNON

On June 6, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gave the go-ahead for the largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of
northern France, commonly known as D-Day.  

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890 – 1969)