Just so you know, today is the 70th Anniversary of the day that General Dwight D. Eisenhower Tweeted #StandWithOccupiedFrance, complete with a serious but sad-faced selfie, in order to eject the German occupiers.
Wait. What?
Oh yeah, he ordered a massive Allied armada of 5,000 ships to land 160,000 Allied troops backed by 13,000 aircraft in what he feared could be a suicidal failure if things went wrong.
Once on the ground, the invasion force kicked ass and took names.
So we actually liberated Nazi-occupied France and other points east during the drive into Germany.
But really, what difference does that make, anyway?
About Me
- Brian J. Dunn
- I live and write in Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan AB and MA from Eastern Michigan University. One term in the Michigan Army National Guard. Former American history instructor and retired nonpartisan research analyst. I write on Blogger and Substack. Various military and private journals have published my occasional articles on military subjects. See "My Published Works" on the TDR web version or under the mobile version drop-down menu for citations and links.
