Was D-Day A Success Or A Failure

On Tuesday, June 6, 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke to the nation over national radio and prayed, “Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity…” (FDR Presidential Library). This was the day of the Allied invasion of the beaches of Normandy, France. This is what is known as D-Day. President Roosevelt spoke to the nation a prayer of truth. The invasion of Normandy was a fight for our morals, our beliefs, and our culture. This fight was a crucial step in bringing liberty into the war-ravaged land in Europe. What if D-Day were to have failed? What could be some of the effects of
The attack on D-Day, the invasion of Normandy, France, was very important in the Allied war effort. It allowed the Allies to open a war front in Western Europe so that Adolf Hitler, the tyrannical leader of Nazi Germany, would have to redirect armed troops away from the fight in the Eastern Front against the Russians to the Western Front. Ambrose highlighted some rather well analyzed and calculated possibilities that could have been a product of a failure on D-Day. Ambrose’s given points are logically reasonable and could have been a true history if all the key factors that fell perfectly together to create the successful attack were to have been slightly off, causing the attack to fail. At the beginning of the article, Ambrose wrote about the weather and how much it affected the ability for the Allied forces to invade into Normandy successfully. Weather played a large role, and Ambrose understood that along with the consequences that came along with different weather. He shared this information when he wrote, “rarely have the whims of weather produced
The predictions in this weather came from several people, but the person who gave the forecast for D Day, Captain J.M. Stagg, gave a weather prediction different of others. Stagg’s forecast was the one that gave General Dwight D. Eisenhower the hope to decide and give the go-ahead for the attack. This prediction in the weather is considered to be “the most famous weather prediction in military history” (Ambrose, 3). Without this weather prediction, D Day could have been delayed, and the outcome could have been drastically different from what it was. Along with the weather, there were several other factors that could have changed the outcome of the invasion, and if the outcome of an Allied victory changed, the war and world could have been significantly different If D Day were to have failed, there are many possibilities of a different outcome to the war that could have occurred. Ambrose discussed some of these outcomes in his article. These outcomes given may have very well been a history we remembered instead of the one we know today. One of these possibilities is the English monarchy could have collapsed. Ambrose shared this possibility when he said