American involvement on June 6th 1944 was a triumph of intelligence, coordination, secrecy and planning. This task was also a tremendous risk. It succeeded because of invividual soldiers bravery.
America was involved in two invasions on the beaches of Utah and Omaha, and parachute landings of the 82nd and 101st airbourne. 160,000 allied troops landed along a 50 mile stretch of heavily guarded french coastline to fight Nazi Germany. More than 100,000 soldiers began the march across europe to defeat Hitler.
