D-Day, June 6 1944, represents the beginning of the final stage of the Allied war effort to destroy Adolf Hitler’s Germany. Having conquered France in an invasion of lightning swiftness and surprise in the summer of 1940, it was widely expected on all sides that Britain would be assaulted shortly after. However, following the Luftwaffe’s defeat in The Battle of Britain and Hitler’s subsequent invasion of the USSR in 1941, this possibility receded, and instead Britain’s war planners began tentatively to plan a return to the continent. The following year Lieutenant-General Frederick Morgan was appointed to lead preliminary research and planning for an Allied invasion.
It was only with America’s entry into the war following Pearl Harbour that momentum began to gather for an
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Citation: White, Karl. "D-Day - Allied forces land in Normandy". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 October 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1680, accessed 27 November 2024.]
