Getting seasick. You have to have your troops in fighting form, but eisenhower went ahead and gave the go signal. On junesion went forth 6, 1944. This speaks a lot about his character, eisenhower wrote out a note the night before in which he said the invasion failed and he alone was responsible for this failure, in case things went wrong. Fortunately, he succeeded. Host the germans knew there would be some sort of invasion. The question was where and when and from what locations in great britain. Fascinating story on how the allies could keep this in the german military. Yes, it was a topsecret plan, but with something of this scale, you will have a hard time to enable to keep things secret. The fact that we were able to keep the germans guessing on when it was going to come was a Great Success on our part. The germans knew we were going to come at some point, but they did not know we went and where. It was a Great Success for the allies that we were able to go into normandy. The germa
Scale, you will have a hard time to enable to keep things secret. The fact that we were able to keep the germans guessing on when it was going to come was a Great Success on our part. The germans knew we were going to come at some point, but they did not know we went and where. It was a Great Success for the allies that we were able to go into normandy. The germans that we were going to go someplace else. We succeeded partly because of our secrecy policies. Host we are getting comments on twitter at cspan history and facebook as a continue our coverage, commemorating the end of world war ii, 70 years ago in 1945. Keith huxon is joining us. On the question of u. S. Preparedness, do you have a comment on the u. S. Civilian conservation corps in helping prepare reserve officers and civilian and will ease for Wartime Service between 1933 and 1942 . Keith i dont have much of a comment on the civilian court in particular, but i will say that civilians were not deeply involved in the war effo
Great success on our part. The germans knew we were going to come at some point, but they did not know we went and where. It was a Great Success for the allies that we were able to go into normandy. The germans that we were going to go someplace else. We succeeded partly because of our secrecy policies. Host we are getting comments on twitter at cspan history and facebook as a continue our coverage, commemorating the end of world war ii, 70 years ago in 1945. Keith huxon is joining us. On the question of u. S. Preparedness, do you have a comment on the u. S. Civilian conservation corps in helping prepare reserve officers and civilian and will ease for Wartime Service between 1933 and 1942 . Keith i dont have much of a comment on the civilian court in particular, but i will say that civilians were not deeply involved in the war effort. The truth of the matter is is that world war ii was a total effort and there were a lot of different jobs. It was not just our 60 million in uniform who
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