4 - Newspaper from New York, 1944 and Speech of Eisenhower broadcasts D-Day invasion order

 

Speech of Eishenhower on June 5, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the massive Allied Expeditionary Force into action.

Under a massive secret operation by British, American, and Canadian forces, thousands of troops are scheduled to land at several beaches in the Normandy region of Nazi-occupied France tomorrow morning. The operations, which have already involved paradropping airborne forces into France as an advance to the invastion.

The plan, hatched by Allied Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower as “Operation Overlord” is designed to take the Third Reich by surprise and create a beachhead for future operations.

One unnamed source stated that “this plan is doomed to fail. Eisenhower is an incompetent leader who has already been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Allied troops at Slapton Sands.”

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