CSPAN3 World War II And The D-Day Invasion June 7, 2014
To go back to europe. If it could happen at all, the allies first had to recruit the enormous armies, train them, build the planes, tanks, trucks, jeeps, artillery pieces, and above all the would need to build the ships that would carry 2 million americans across the ocean and channel with all the supplies and ammunition. Then they would need more ships to protect those transports during the crossing. More ships would keep them supplied not only with arms and bullets but also with cocacola and hershey bars and newspapers. Cigarettes. And then more ships that could take that force and bring it ...