D-Day

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Europe’s occupied Nazi Germany during World War II will forever be remembered as a gruesome movement that caused a tremendous outcry for help amongst so many innocent lives. Millions of people were affected directly and millions more indirectly as the world began to transform against everything people knew and cherished. An end to this massacre needed to be sought and the only way was to create a second warfront to officially conquer over the regime of the Nazi German infiltration. This would be known as operation Overlord. The day was codenamed D-Day. Years of planning awaited this moment, D-Day soon became a countdown that would hold a nation hostage in waiting for the final invasion. What was not expected, despite the years of planning, was how it would all unfold. America had control over the beaches codenamed Utah and Omaha and would make the first indentation over the Atlantic Wall. Those victories, and those of the beaches controlled Canadian and British troops, would successfully invade and hold ground in Normandy to create a stronghold that would allow reinforcements entrance that would enable an end to the war. It was a sorrowful victory but the lives lost were not lost in vain. This is a story of how thousands would forever change history by constructing a new warfront and taking over enemy territory. D-Day became a countdown everyone awaited for. As United States had more than 130 million captivated audience members, held by tension as the nation entered war to become broadcast’s first invasion aired without commercial or program interruption, 150,000 men prepared to change history forever. 1 If ever there was a day to be termed as an organized chaos, this was it. Training, preparing, organizing every detail was the only way success could be guaranteed, but the outcome was something no man was prepared for. "This operation is not

1 McDonough, John. "The Longest Night: Broadcasting's First Invasion." The American Scholar, no. 1994 (1994):...