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We will accept nothing less than full victory! Good luck! And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking. He will fight savagely.īut this is the year 1944! The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to victory! I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle-hardened. The hope and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. On June 6 planes carried 13,000 paratroopers, gliders carried 4,000 glider infantry, and landing craft carried 57,000 infantry to storm into Normandy and breach Hitler’s Atlantic Wall. On the eve of battle Dwight Eisenhower has a message for the men about to invade France: Planned for over a year before it started, more than 130,000 Allied troops stormed into Normandy in early June by sea and by air in the largest amphibious attack in military history. Though World War II contained many “D-Days” the one most fixed in the popular imagination is the D-Day that saw the Allies invade France at Normandy. The ‘beginning of the end of World War II’ came on June 6, 1944.

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