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The
Untold Story
by
K. Neil Earle
What was the key to Allied victory in World War JI ?
More importantly, why are things now going
so badly for the British and American peoples?
J
UNE
6, 1944-j ust a
brief 40 years ago this
summer- was one of the
decisive dates in history!
On that day General Dwight
D. Eisenhower from headquar-
June
6,
1944, the "Longest
Day."
Yet the behind-the-scenes story
is even more remarkable, and offers
convincing evidence of the part a
g reat unseen Hand has always
played in history, and
especial/y
in
the history of the Anglo-American
people.
Forty years later, it is time for
that story to be retold-the plain
truth about D-day.
lt
is also time to
ask a more pertinent question: Why
is it that this guiding Hand seems
missing from the English-speaking
world today?
Weather the Key
D-day was originally scheduled for
June 5, not June 6. Let General
Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied
Commander, tell the story in his
own words:
"The final conference for deter–
mining the feasibility of attacking
on J une 5, was scheduled for 4:00
a.m. on June 4.... Sorne of the
attacking contingents had already
been ordered to sea.... On the
morning of June 4 the report we
received was discouraging. Low
ters in southern England sent
more than 250,000 Canadian,
American and British sold iers
across the treacherous Channel
to commence a "Crusade in
Europe."
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lt was the greatest combined
assault in history: more tban 3,300
assault ships and Janding craft–
supported by J 1,400 aircraft, six
battleships, 2 1 cruisers, countless
dcstroyers, artificial harbors, down
to grappling hooks and innumera–
ble silk scarves with maps showing
encmy positions.
Th e stakes? Colossal. A bunglcd
Allied invas ion of the French coast
would mean a chance for Hitler to
withdraw troops from the West to
meet the Russian onslaught; time,
too, for the Nazis to perfect new
superweapons like the Y-1 and Y-2
missiles that were to terrorize Lon–
don that same summer.
The world has become familiar
with the official story of D-day,
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Long lines of U.S. soldiers (background) move inland on Frencb coast in D-day
assault as more men and supplies come ashore behind ha lf-tracks.
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