Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower knew that success on the beaches would require support beyond the beaches to prevent the arrival of German reinforcements.
If the US and its western Allies wanted to win this war as rapidly as possible, they couldn’t sit around and wait: not for a naval blockade, or for strategic bombing to work, or for the Soviets.
On June 5, 13,400 American paratroopers boarded C-47 aircraft for the largest airborne operation in history. Problems began as they crossed into France.
While the Overlord operation was a combined effort of land, sea, and air forces, the amphibious assault plan was given the code name Neptune.
This column is the first of three D-Day columns written by war correspondent Ernie Pyle describing the Allied invasion of Normandy.
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