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D-Day

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In 1942 General Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, had warned Germany
to, "Beware the fury of an aroused democracy." On D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allies
mounted the largest amphibious assault in history and redeemed Eisenhower's warning.
The invasion force consisted of more than 5,000 ships, 1,200 warships and 13,000
airplanes. Some 90,000 U.S., British, Canadian, and free French troops landed on the
beaches of Normandy while about 20,000 more came by parachute or glider. The
Invasion had been in preparation for a year. Over 55,000 brave American soldiers
stormed the beaches of Normandy, an appalling 2,700 Americans had took their last steps
of life defending their country, their world, and everything they stood for.

D-Day, planned by the Russians, Americans, and British insisted that the United
States help with the advancement on France (Atlantic front). British and Canadian forces
would also combine in the cross-channel invasion. Simultaneously in Eastern Europe
(eastern front) the Soviets would battle while the Americans, the British, and the Canadian
forces would attack a stretch of beaches along the French coast. The U.S. would attack a
part of Normandy code named Omaha and Utah beaches. These were two code names for
these particular sectors of the invasion front.

Buildup

Around a year before D-Day, Hitler had gained and occupied Western Europe and
parts of Russia during it's blitzkrieg crusade throughout 1939-41. Adolf Hitler, the Nazi
leader of Germany, had also acquired control of the North African coast. Without
intervention from the Western Allies, Hitler would reign Europe for years to come.

Subsequently while Russians were engaged in the war, Joseph Stalin, the Soviet
leader, had wanted the Allies to join and proceed to make a "second front" along Western
Europe. In 1942 this idea was virtually impossible for the United States because we
were still forming an army. The...