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Message Drafted by General Eisenhower in Case the D-Day Invasion Failed and Photographs Taken on D-Day

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  • Aug 13 2010 4:15 PM

    Kathyleen Bishop

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Article I,Section 8, Paragraphs 11 through 16 , of the U.S. Constitution grant Congress the power to declare war and provide for and regulate a military force. This lesson addresses the success of such a force on D-Day. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill were responsible for leading their nations to victory and jointly planned strategies for the cooperation and eventual success of the Allied armed forces. Roosevelt and Churchill had already agreed early in the war that Germany must be stopped first if success was to be attained in the Pacific. They were repeatedly urged by Stalin to open a 'secondfront' that would alleviate the enormous pressure that Germany's military was exerting on Russia. General Eisenhower's experience and the Allied troops' preparations were finally put to the test on the morning of June 6, 1944. An invasion force of 4,000 ships, 11,000 planes, and nearly three million soldiers, marines, airmen, and sailors was assembled in England for the assault. Eisenhower's doubts about success in the face of a highly-defended and well-prepared enemy led him to consider what would happen if the invasion of Normandy failed. If the Allies did not secure a strong foothold on D-Day, they would be ordered into a full retreat, and he would be forced to make public the message he drafted for such an occasion. Despite great losses, Eisenhower's letter was not needed because D-Day was a success, opening Europe to the Allies and a German surrender less than a year later. Less

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