I have had a great deal of both public and personal accomplishments throughout my lifetime. However I find it impossible to think of one that is of a greater magnitude than that I have just been assigned of the amphibious assault in Operation Overlord, or better known as D-Day.
When called by President Roosevelt to aid in the allied efforts stationed in Britain, I never would have expected that it would be my responsibility to host such a gargantuan invasion plan. All I knew of the allied forces was that they had recently been out fought and out gunned on both fronts and that the tide of the war was going against us. I also knew that defeat was not an option. After the conference of Tehran which brought together of the allied powers, Stalin, Churchill and of course Roosevelt, the decision was made that we needed to deliver a counter strike to the Nazis through France.
Now it is my job to organize and prepare a massive invasion force, which will be ready and willing to fight through a heavy German defended line better known as the Atlantic Wall. Both Churchill and I have decided that the most decisive location of attack would be to cross the English Channel and land on the Normandy beaches, with a combined sea and air assault. We have more than 4 full airborne divisions at our disposal as well as 11 different naval landing fleets.
I am confident for our men but I must fear the worst. I am fully aware at the difficulty of such a landing as the beach head is on constant patrol from German defenses. I have planned to the best of my ability, I have calculated with exact precision, but most of all I have prayed that God might be with us on this day, this day to end all days the 6th of June 1944. Goodluck men.
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