Today is the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the end for Hitler’s Germany.
On this day in 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gave the go-ahead for the largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, the Allied invasion of northern France. The operation had been delayed one day by bad weather.
This was a campaign to bring freedom and liberty back to northern Europe. By daybreak, thousands of British and American paratroopers were already on the ground. More than 12,000 aircraft were mobilized to provide air cover and support for the invasion. This was the beginning of taking back Western Europe from the National Socialists also known as the Nazis.
As Sundance over at CTH noted some years back,
For more than two years the Nazis had been fortifying the Western shores of Europe in preparation for an allied attack to liberate the oppressed. For two years the Nazi forces stockpiled weapons, stacked and stored ammunition and fortified their placements.
Wave after wave after wave of allied heroes kept advancing. Inches became feet, feet became yards and yards eventually became miles. The enemy was defeated by pure attrition just as powerful as the losing of battles in immediate confrontation. German machine gun barrels melted. German pill boxes ran out of ammunition; they did not, however, run out of targets.
We were the side that would not relent.
We did not quit, after the first 6,500 fell.
Failure was not an option when 6,500 became 65,000 less than two weeks later.
Victory, in the purest and most consequential form, was not a goal – it was imperative.
The same level of ideological confrontation faces us today.
Deserve victory.
Courtesy…CTH
Courtesy…CTH
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