


On the other hand had it failed, world history would have become unrecognizable compared to our own. Yet with profound conviction Allied leaders accepted the risk because success might ensure the freedom of humanity from one of the greatest evils it had ever faced. Overlord’s architects who planned and executed the offensive understood that their efforts may have instead been mourned as one of the greatest disasters in military history. However, that belief could not be further from the truth. Through its mythologized retelling, countless consider the landing’s success a historical inevitability. Today, D-Day is rightly remembered as a day of heroes with forces from every Allied nation assaulting the heavily defended beaches of Normandy.
