The Significance Of D-Day

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English invasion plans. It was, from his point of view, one of his greatest errors.
He made another bad mistake in June 1941 by declaring war on Russia, until then his ally. His Italian and Japanese partners also made mistakes. They both attempted more than they had the strength to handle. Italy pushed the war into North Africa. Japan brought the United States into the conflict, on December 7th of that same year, by attacking Hawaii (Pearl Harbor) the Philippines and other American possessions in the Pacific. American military strategists, like the British, began to plan for the day when the Allies would invade Europe to destroy the powerful German army.
In August 1942, when the United States was just beginning to turn its peacetime strength into military power, the British and Canadian actually made a small amphibious test raid across the Channel. It was aimed at the small French port Dieppe. The raid was a disaster; nearly half of the 6,100 British and Canadian soldiers who took part in it were killed or captured. Yet, despite ...