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After pearl harbor and americas entrance into the war. Two days after the fifth army captured the eternal city, general dwight d. Eisenhowers forces hit the normandy beaches in a massive amphibious assault. Despite bitter german resistance, we built up an enormous beachhead and finally broke through. Our seventh army, commanded by general alexander patch, landed in Southern France and pushed along the rome river valley. 10 days later, paris was liberated. In italy, the fifth army crossed the arno river and is swept on toward bellona. In the pacific, General Macarthurs forces invaded, putting them within 300 miles of the philippines. General stillwell was making progress in burma, with british and chinese units. [explosions] the tide of war was turning against the aggressors with a vengeance. Just 97 days after the assault on omaha beach, the army had crossed the german bo ....
This was amphibious warfare on a scale that staggered the imagination. Nothing like it had ever been seen. At omaha beach, in the first assault, 30,000 american troops stormed ashore. British and Canadian Forces struck at three different beach sectors. At utah beach, 20,000 american troops were landed. By the end of the first day, our ashore totaled 120,000 men. With every passing hour, with each passing day, reinforcements streamed ashore to enlarge the beachhead with tanks, trucks, ammunition, and supplies. Hundreds of our attack bombers and fighters were now over europe, carrying payloads of destruction aimed at the Vital Centers of hitlers europe. Hitlers fortress europe. [planes flying] [explosions] flying forces in heavy formations cascaded 3500 tons of explosives, a ton every second, upon naziheld positions. Our mass bomber formations were given a canopy of air support ....
Phenomenal. And then we had those european elections, and its like its sort of caught the imagination. I would find that i would be on the train and i would find that i would be on the train and i would have my lib dem sticker on from campaigning and random people would come up to me and say, keep going, youre doing well and i knew that other people had that experience. Canvassing at the moment is an absolute joy. The me tell you. If you have never gone knocking on doors before, youve always been a bit worried about it, really, seriously, now is the time to go knocking on doors liberal democrat leader, jo swinson, theyre talking but the fortunes of her party and the local elections. And more recently the european elections. And here shes got another conservative, former conservative, has been sitting as an independent, joining the ranks. You can hear in her tone of voice that optimism, the sensitive liberal democrat are going places. They scraped the bottom of the barrel in their downt ....