was replaced by exhilaration. I felt literally on top of the world. I remember thinking, 'you've had it chum, its no good worrying anymore - the die has been cast and what is to be, will be, and there is nothing you can do about it.' I sat back and enjoyed

defeatist attitudes. The assassination attempt on June 20, 1944 against Hitler was a natural outgrowth of these attitudes. By the end of August, most of France was liberated. Paris fell on August 25. The Germans, however, hung on for another nine months. They launched one "last hurrah," the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944; this surprised the Allies but did not affect the outcome of the war. By this point, it was a foregone conclusion that the Germans had lost. Four months later, Adolf Hitler ended the "Thousand Year Reich" with a bullet to his head.

my first trip to Europe." Yet another rifleman who was carried to the beach in the LCVP's relates one of his incidents: "I got on the gun. I set the gun up, and we're looking, we're looking. He says, "See if you can spot him." All of a sudden I spotted him, about 200 yards away, and I'd say maybe 30 or 40 feet higher than me. He wasn't firing at me. He was firing down across. So when he opened up again - the Germans, when they fire, they fire fast, they don't fire like we did, because they change the barrels of their machine guns in seconds. Ours were a pain. We had to take the whole gun apart and screw the barrel off, and then put another barrel on. They would get hot if you fired like the Germans. We only fired bursts of t!

es. Without that earlier victory, the assault would have been foolhardy. So decisive was this victory that commander of the American air forces, General H. H. Arnold compared it to the Battle of Gettysburg for its importance in American history. The leading ground troops merely noted the results. They were glad to see that all the planes in the sky had painted stripes like Christmas candy- meaning that they belonged to the Allies, not to the Germans. The men in the landing boats were delighted that the first steps of the assault had gone so smoothly! It had been noted on a higher level that unless the fighter strength of the enemy could be broken 'it may become literally impossible to carry out the destruction planned'. A new plan was drafted. Operation 'Pointblank' raising the reduction of the German fighter strength to the first priority while retaining the ultimate object of the bomber offensive. These conclusions, with their notes of pessimism, were not shared by the bombe!

south to encounter the Allied forces, remained in Pas de Calais. Had this not been the case, the Allies might have faced a disastrous situation. Thanks to Bodyguard, it did not happen. Bodyguard was not the only reason, however, for D-Day's success. Among the others was the weather. Before the U-Boat threat was removed in May 1943, the Germans maintained several weather stations throughout the Atlantic. After May 1943, the Germans were largely ignorant of Atlantic weather patterns. In contrast, the Allies were aware of much of the weather on the Continent, mainly through Ultra encrypts. This disparity was a distinct disadvantage for the Germans. Because of Overlord's strict landing requirements, there were only three days on which the invasion could have occurred: June 5, 6, and 7. It was imperative that the weather was good on at least one of these days. Otherwise, the invasion would have to have been delayed until the end of June or the beginning of July. By this time, it pr!

ent, the Germans had fewer than 200 fighter planes available for the defense of France. Most of what they had were not going to get off the ground- for lack of gasoline. most of those that took to the air were not going to fight- primarily because they were so heavily outnumbered. That was a sign of one great job the Allied air forces had done. For two years the American bombers had been destroying Germany's gasoline-refining and plane-manufacturing factories. This was just as important as meeting and defeating German planes in the air. In the two months before the assault, the allied airmen had set out to wreck the railroads the German army would need for a counterattack. In April and May 1437 Fre

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