D-Day: The Sixth of June 1944: The Largest Sea Borne Invasion in Military History

With Adolph Hitler's Stranglehold on the Entire European Continent Tightening It's Grip, the Invasion of Normandy HAD to Be a Success. This is the Story of that Great Military Campaign

"We are going to have peace, even if we have to fight for it"- General Dwight D. Eisenhower. June 1, 1944

"Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler. Just like I'd shoot a snake!" General George S. Patton (just before the Normandy Invasion) June 5th 1944

In the summer in 1944, Hitler's Wehrmacht (armed forces) still were still very much in command of all of the territories the Germans had fought over and won during their Blitzkrieg campaign of 1941- 1943. Most of the entire region of Europe was still in the stranglehold of Hitler's clutches, and the allies were in a desperate position to somehow loosen his grip on Europe by any means necessary. A year before that summer of 1944, General Dwight D. Eisenhower was commissioned by Franklin Roosevelt to come up with a grand military plan to invade the European stronghold that the German army were holding steadfast to.

The first proposal for the invasion was named "Operation Roundup", and then changed to "Operation Sledgehammer" a few months later. The invasion was put on hold until May of 1944 through the insistence of Joseph Stalin and FDR against the protestations of Winston Churchill who wanted to go forward with Eisenhower's plan in August of 1943. The turning point that finally changed Churchill's mind was the agreement that Stalin would help the allies by mounting an offensive against Hitler in eastern Europe at the same time that the US Army and Marines invaded Normandy, which would help to deliver a deadly two prong attack against Germany's military.