The Allies had amassed vast forces, but despite the thousands of warships and landing craft, only a fraction of Allied strength could be initially transported across the Channel. The immediate goal was to make sure the invasion was successful. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) What was the goal of D-Day? US troops in landing craft during the D-Day landings. The date was set as 5 June 1944, which was then pushed back a day due to poor weather, to Tuesday 6 June. Finally, in early June 1944, the Allies had the weight of men and materiel as well as control of the skies with which to invade. Gaining air superiority over all of Western Europe was a non-negotiable prerequisite for any invasion and not until the spring of 1944 had that condition been met. Vital airfields were captured in southern Italy, from which Allied strategic air forces (those independent of ground operations) could work in tandem with bomber forces operating from Britain – and so tighten the noose around the Third Reich. With increasingly large Allied forces now in the Mediterranean and with Italy teetering, it made sense to follow up with an assault on Sicily in July 1943 – and after victory there, a further invasion of southern Italy that September. 12 things you (probably) didn’t know about Pearl Harbor.
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With the British Eighth Army attacking from Egypt and the Anglo-US First Army from Algeria, the German-Italian forces were caught in a pincer in Tunisia, which finally fell in May 1943. Instead, a joint invasion of north-west Africa, held by pro-Germany Vichy France, was launched first in November 1942.
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The build-up of US forces in Britain began in January 1942, but it soon became clear this new coalition of Britain and the United States was not ready to crack Nazi-occupied Europe any time soon. In December 1941, British and American war leaders met and agreed that the defeat of Nazi Germany was their first priority and that the best way to achieve this was by an invasion of France, using Britain as a launch-pad.
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An explosion at the Naval Air Station, Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, during the Japanese attack on 7 December 1941.