Operation Overlord
By 1944 World War II had lasted nearly four and a half years. The entire war now
depended on the success or failure of an invasion of France. The first three years of the war
had almost entirely been a chain of Nazi victories. They had succeeded in crushing Poland and
forcing France to surrender. Hitler's attempts at capturing England were halted by the RAF,
Royal Air Force. After the devastating Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hitler declared war on
the United States and forced Italy to follow.
By November of 1942 Hitler began to pay for his string of mistakes. In Egypt his favorite
General, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, had been defeated at The Alamein by the British Eighth
Army, after being trapped between two armies. Hitler, fearing he would be captured, ordered
him back. The fighting in Russia had been so severe and deadly that Marshal Stalin was
demanding an allied landing in France, so as to force Hitler to move his troops from Stalin's......
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