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5 pages in length. D-Day and the Battle of Normandy stand out as one of history's most brazen attempts to overcome the enemy. Dawn of June 6, 1944 brought with it one hundred thousand men, almost five thousand naval vessels (battleships, cruisers, destroyers, etc.) and the quest to destroy the enemy's defensive positions. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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thousand naval vessels (battleships, cruisers, destroyers, etc.) and the quest to destroy the enemys defensive positions, a military operation unlike any that came before and one President Roosevelt called a
"mighty endeavor...to preserve...our civilization and to set free a suffering humanity."1 Significant to the Allied invasion were General Bradley, Admiral Ramsay, Air Chief Marshal Tedder, General Eisenhower, General Montgomery,
Air Chief Marshal Leigh Mallory, General Patton, General Bradley and General Smith. D-Day and the Battle of Normandy were strategically meant to reflect the finesse and organization inherent to solid
military prowess; however, the best laid plans fell to the wayside when its duration was almost three months. Two primary objectives were reached within the first ten days of
battle - extending the bridgehead and capturing the port of Cherbourg - but it was immediately following this week and a half that "all their problems started."2 The Americans
found liberating Cotentin and Bessin particularly difficult; moreover, Caen represented an especially dark period for the Allies, inasmuch as German armored divisions held Canadian and British troops at bay.
Americans, looking to overtake the Cotentin Peninsula, found themselves "bogged down in the war of the hedgerows and managing to capture Saint-L? with only the greatest difficulty on July 18th."3
This perpetual setback would ultimately abate, however, come the end of July when Operation Cobra provided the appropriate opportunity for American troops to "smash through the enemy defences"4 and
make their collective way into Brittany and the Loire. Hitlers ordered counter-attack at Mortain in August failed to achieve its planned objective, serving
as the first identifiable unraveling of the German military, who were now vulnerable to enclosure. Losing a significant number of soldiers to the Falaise Pocket at months end all
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