Historical Revisionism on the Invasions of D-day

Running head : HISTORICAL REVISIONISM ON THE INVASIONS OF D-DAY

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Introduction

June 6th 1944 was codenamed D-DAY by the allied forces intent on destroying the German war machine and liberating Europe from the tentacles of German control . It took many months of allied planning to come up with a feasible plan that would land troops on the European continent and open up a second war front that would greatly stretch the enemy `s capacity to maintain its strategic defensive positions . The war on

the Russian front was taking its toll both on the Russian side and on the resources of the German forces . Hitler was sure that as long as he prevented an allied invasion on the continent , he could recoup his losses and rearm his armies so as to prosecute the war a little longer

By opting to strike when the German army was actively engaged on its eastern front , the allied invasion on the Normandy beach decisively altered the direction of the war and eventually led to the defeat of the German army . Operation Neptune , the code name of the invasion of Normandy , may have been considered a major success by military analysts and war historians , but this will argue that the invasion was not only highly dangerous and costly but also it may have been ill advised

The planning of the invasion was opposed by the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill , who favored a gradual routing of German troops from areas where the war effort could be executed with fewer casualties and less collateral damage . It was for this reason that early plans for the invasion of the European continent were put off till the year 1944 despite initial hopes for an operation in the years 1942-43 . The North African allied campaign that defeated the German troops more or less convinced him that his position was correct

Stalin was concerned that his country was suffering from the war and believed that unless the allied forces came to his rescue he would be overrun by the Germans . His concern was that if the allied troops engaged the Germans on the European continent , then he would be able to reorganize his troops to defend their positions and make frontal attack that would force the Germans to retreat to their country and in the process ensure their final surrender . In the aftermath of Casablanca and Tehran conferences , the allied forces began earnest preparations to put their plans into action

By the beginning of 1944 , it was evident that a major onslaught was in the offing . The question remained an issue of when and not if . Delayed twice due to logistical reasons , the allied forces appeared to have the necessary manpower and military hardware in place to execute the invasion by the end of May . Final touches , weather reports and fine tuning of the plans pushed the D-Day to the fifth and then to the sixth of June that year

Moments before midnight on the fifth...