D-Day

Finally, it was June 6, 1944 or D-Day!!! The Allied forces under an U.S. general, Dwight D. Eisenhower, led to one of the world greatest naval invasion of all times. The Allied would not defeat the Nazis without cooperation, well-planned invasion and well-trained military forces. The Canadian, British and the American armies marched to war without fear while Sir Frederick Edgeworth Morgan smoked his cigars as he planned the world greatest invasion ever. Remember!!! Without D-day, the leadership of general Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the golden plan, Russia would probably rule the entire European continent today.

It took incredibly amount of bravery for the Allies to win the war. They kept on fighting, passing mines, traps, tanks etc. As a result, most of them died at the end of the war. After the war, one of the German soldiers described his point of View on D-Day, telling how organized the Allies were. He explained that on the night of June 6^th, he didn’t expect any invasion or anything more than just his regular watch in the night. But suddenly, parachutists were everywhere, aircrafts started to land, and ships were releasing all their tanks and soldiers. He went on detail that after a moment, tanks began to approach from every directions and fire at him and his unit. After a couple of hours, they were caught by British paratroops. First he was very depressed to be in captivity, only later when he saw what was left behind for the enemy to attack he found himself very fortunate and glad. In brief, without the Allies’ bravery, they would never be able to win the war.

Now, you would ask how the Allies won the war. Within three months, the Allies landed two million men and 500,000 vehicles. From then on, they kept pushing inland and broke to the German defensive line. Meanwhile, they successfully liberated Paris. Then the Allies advanced up to Germany where they rejoined with the Soviets who had came a long way from the Battle of Stalingrad. By January, Hitler, leader of the Nazis, moved into his bunker which was located under the city of Berlin. Even when Hitler was losing, he still ordered his supporters to continue the Holocaust, and blamed the Jews for losing the war for the second times. Finally, it is believed that either Hitler killed himself by sticking a bullet in his head, or ran away which no one ever saw him again.

What next? The next thing that happened after World War II was the division of Germany into sections or parts, and gave it to the member of the Allies to rule as mandates. The western part went to the Americans, French and British while the eastern part went to the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, due to political differences, the Soviet applied strict Communist rule in the eastern part of Germany creating an “Iron Curtain between Western and Eastern Europe” as what Winston Churchill had remarked. East Germany was not reunited again until 1990. The division of Germany and political differences caused the Cold War which lasted until 1991 when Mikhail Gorbachev declared that the Soviet Union ceased to exist.

The Allies won the war. And today, they are the countries that the greatest impact in our lives.

Chris G.9