"The Longest Day" D-Day
- Operation Overlord
- Allies ope a second front in France against the Germans - Land onf five beaches named Utah and Omaha (American) Juno (Canadian) and Sword and Gold (British and Polish) - Rommel felt what whoever won the beaches that day would win the war From D-Day to the Fall of Berlin - Battle for Normandy - summer 1944 - Falaise Gap - Liberation of Paris - Operation Market Garden - Sept/ 1944 - Ploy to end the war before the Russians got to Berlin - The Battle of the Bulge - German counteroffensive - Russian attack on Berlin (300,000 Soviet Troops) - Hitler commits suicide in bunker - Russians and Americans meet “We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.”
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Allies plan to finally invade Nazi occupied Europe. D-Day major success, gives allies edge to continue and conquer the Nazis.
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