I guess we're reviewing stuff before this test that is coming WAY too soon. General Patton versus General Rommel or whatever aka the Desert Fox, Patton was ours, fighting in Africa. British AMerizan invasion of French North Africa started on NOvember eight, nineteen fourty two. my mid nineteenfourtythree we had defeated the germans, italians nad the Vichy French. Winston Churchill said "We need to attack the soft belly of Europe." a strong part of the southern line of europe was france, so we attacked Italy, the soft spot. When Bruns thinks of Africa, he thinks of Panzers versus Shermans fighting in the desert. Casablanca Conference- Churchill and our president met in January 1942 and decided they would only accept an unconditional surrender. Sicily is the football that the boot of Italy is kicking, bruns that is a terrible analogy. The italian soldiers had the high ground in the mountains but eventually we won the uphill battle and we used Sicily as a base to invade the mainland of Italy. Many german soldiers were in Italy with the italians. Italy was not free of German troops until 1945. The Tuskeegee Airmen were trained at the Tuskegee Institute. They were all black and did a great job bombing Italy and Germany. Ok tidbit asians did pree much errythang white folks did but they did it against discrimination. Now. D-Day. GO EISENHOWER BOSSIN THE WHOLE ALLIED FORCE AROUND YAYEAAH. Operation Overlodr. Allied invasion of Nazi controlled France. The assauult was in two phases, the first being an airborne assault landing of twenty four thousand british, american, canadian, and free french airborne troops shortly after midnight. the second stage was an amphibious landing of allied infantry and armored divisions on the coast of France starting at 6 30 am. There were also decoy operations to distrac the german forces from the real landing areas. Theo peration was the largest amphibious invasion in world history with over 160,000 troops roughly 10000 allied casualties 6,600 US casualties. Dwight Eisenhower - "You are about to embark upon the great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months." The Atlantic Wall. Built from 42 to 44 and it was an extensive system of coastal fortifications bult by Nazi Germany as a defense against an amphibious assault from Great Britain. Within the first 15 minutes every lieutenant and general and colonel all the officers were dead in the first wave. Ike, Patton and Bradley were the generals involved in this. Ike Eisenhower was in charge of the whole shindig. Battle of the Bulge- Winter of 1944 into 45 6 or 7 months before the war ends. we're knocking on germany's door and hitler is like oh noooooh and so he wanted to push the allied forces to the sea and then swoop down and retake france. Good. Luck. All it would have done would have extended a war for a bit. Coldest, snowiest weather on record in the ARdennes Forest on the German/Belgium border. Over a million men, 500000 German, 600000 american, and 55000 British. 100000 german casualties 81000 american casualties. 1400 british casualties. 800 tanks lost on each side, 1000 german aircraft lost. Hitler's Suicide- April 1945 Russians are entering Berlin, the capital, Hitler marries Eva Braun, shooting himself in the head and taking cyanide, ordering his bodyguards to burn his body so that the Russians could not get his body. Eva took cyanide too. VE day May 8th.
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