America In D-Day

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in on the fighting against Japan
(Ambrose, 95-97). They at first set a date for late1943, but soon reconsidered and thought that May of
1944 would be a much better time for the cross-Channel invasion. The plan though would take much
planning and they knew that they would have to meet back together in order to finish their strategy
(Astor, 14-17).
The planning began in early January of 1944, and lasted almost five months to create a final plan!
Adolph Hitler first learned about plans for a British-American cross-Channel invasion into Normandy
early on. He did not react to it until late 1943 by removing many of his troops from the Mediterranean
and placing them in Normandy to guard the coastline (“The War In Europe”). The plan was rather
simple, but also very complex at the same time. The part of the military that came over there was the
Twenty-first Army Group and that was led by Bernard Law Montgomery. The Twenty-first Army Group
was divided in two parts which were the United State’s First Army and the British Second...