D-Day is considered to be one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history. The Americans planned out a diversion to keep German forces busy while they attacked different parts of France. General Robert Patton set up a phantom army, fake equipment, and fake radio transmissions in the narrowest point between Britain and France, Pas-de-Calais. While German forces lined up for the attack on Pas-de-Calais, 156,000 forces landed on 5 beaches along Normandy covering up to 50 miles of land (The Way We Won: America's Economic Breakthrough During World War II). The forces were able to push North and liberate France from German rule. The Germans were losing territory quickly and the US forces were already prepared to enter Germany from the West and meet the Soviet troops moving in from the East. In Germany's last attempt to stay in the war and split the Allies apart, Hitler commands more than a quarter-million troops to operate a blitzkrieg from Ardennes to Antwerp. This was known as the Battle of the Bulge. The Germans at first were able to push back the allied forces but the bad weather and the limited amount of fuel left for military offensives weakened them, and resulted in an Allied victory (United States History). This ultimately lead up to Germany's surrendered to the United States and the suicide of, Fascist leader, Adolf Hitler. The United States no longer had to worry about fighting a two front war. They could now turn their attention towards
D-Day is considered to be one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history. The Americans planned out a diversion to keep German forces busy while they attacked different parts of France. General Robert Patton set up a phantom army, fake equipment, and fake radio transmissions in the narrowest point between Britain and France, Pas-de-Calais. While German forces lined up for the attack on Pas-de-Calais, 156,000 forces landed on 5 beaches along Normandy covering up to 50 miles of land (The Way We Won: America's Economic Breakthrough During World War II). The forces were able to push North and liberate France from German rule. The Germans were losing territory quickly and the US forces were already prepared to enter Germany from the West and meet the Soviet troops moving in from the East. In Germany's last attempt to stay in the war and split the Allies apart, Hitler commands more than a quarter-million troops to operate a blitzkrieg from Ardennes to Antwerp. This was known as the Battle of the Bulge. The Germans at first were able to push back the allied forces but the bad weather and the limited amount of fuel left for military offensives weakened them, and resulted in an Allied victory (United States History). This ultimately lead up to Germany's surrendered to the United States and the suicide of, Fascist leader, Adolf Hitler. The United States no longer had to worry about fighting a two front war. They could now turn their attention towards