America In D-Day

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Many Europeans say that the Allied Powers could have won the battle of D-Day without the help of the
United States of America, but the simple facts is without its help there was almost no possible way that
they could have defeated the German forces (Pankratz, 1). The British along with some Canadians could
have never fought off an army of that size and the surely would not be able to advance very far.
Anyways the attack most likely would not have happened without future United States President Dwight
D. Eisenhower, who at the time was commander of the ground invasion forces. It was he who really
proposed the idea of an amphibious invasion of Normandy, France. It was he that made most of the
plans and really ran the discussion with the other Allied leaders. At the time the president of the United
States was Franklin D. Roosevelt whose original chief of staff originally placed Eisenhower as his
second-hand man to show him the ropes so that Eisenhower could become the next chief of staff
(Ambrose, 59-60). Without the United State’s involvement in the fighting of D-Day the mission could
have never been successful.
Europeans have taken up a very nationalistic bias against the Americans because they believe
that Americans contributed very little help during D-Day, but their bias is only because they want to
believe that Great Britain was the leader of all of the Allied Power because of the Nationalism and the
jealousy. At the time when the Allied leaders began planning D-Day their military was just finishing its
fighting on the Italian Peninsula and they were also doing very well in their efforts of fighting in the
Pacific Ocean. Also they needed a way to stand up to Adolph Hitler’s Third Reich, so they were
proposing plans of Operations “Roundup”, “Sledgehammer”, and “Torch”. It took place in a time of the
second World War where fighting and deaths were at their peaks and nations were in total wa...