America In D-Day

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r. D-Day
is a military code that stands for the day that it took place which was June 6th, 1944, and when the
fighting started it was called H-Hour. D-Day literally stands for day-day, and actually every battle of
World War II was given that name at first. D-Day, also called Operation “Overlord,” took a long time to
plan, carry out, and then finally in the end recover from the fighting. (Ambrose, 71) The planning itself
took a very long time and without it D-Day would have never been successful, the fighting was total war
and there were many casualties, and all of the victims then needed to be tended to and Normandy would
need to be rebuilt for France. For the American soldiers the fighting took place on two beaches named
Utah and Omaha (Ambrose, 19).
Planning for D-Day took place early on in the year of 1944 while heavy fighting was going on all
around the world between the Allied and Axis Powers. In 1942 similar plans were founded by proposed
missions of taking over North Africa through Operations “Roundup”, “Sledgehammer”, and “Torch”
mentioned earlier. All three of these ideas were presented at the Tehran Conference in 1943 which was
a meeting between Joseph Stalin who was the leader of the Soviet Union, Franklin Roosevelt who was
the president of the United States of America, and Winston Churchill who was the leader of Great
Britain (Astor, 96-98). Roosevelt and Churchill at the time had been trying to appease Stalin with
lend-lease aid to the Soviet Union and attempting to force Germany’s surrender. There were also two
other conferences between the three of them in Quebec and Cairo. There was a fourth mission proposed
called Operation “Overlord.” Joseph Stalin agreed with Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill that
if they took care of the invasion of Normandy that simultaneously he would join in the war in eastern
Europe and once Germany had been defeated he would also join...