Part one of term paper
When on D-Day-June 6, 1944-Allied armies landed in Normandy on the northwestern coast of France, possibly the one most critical event of World War II happened; for upon the outcome of the invasion hung the fate of Europe. If the invasion failed, the United States might turn its full attention to the enemy in the Pacific-Japan-leaving Brit ...

Part two of term paper
... ashore on D-Day than on the first day of the earlier invasion of Sicily, the invasion of Normandy was in total history's greatest naval operation, involving on the first day 5,000 ships, the largest group of armed military crafts ever assembled; 11,000 aircraft (following months of preliminary bombardment); and approximately 154,000 British, Canadian and American soldiers, including 23,000 arriving by parachute and glider. The invasion also involved a long- range deception plan on a scale the wo ...