Eisenhower's Countdown to D-Day

About this episode

The episode explores General Eisenhower's role in D-Day and the factors that influenced the invasion's strategy.

On June 6, 1944, a combined Allied force carried out the largest amphibious invasion in history. They were led by an American. What was General Eisenhower's role in D-Day? How was American officer training key to the strategy used? And how did the British weather change everything? Don's guest is John C. McManus, professor of military history at Missouri University of Science and Technology and host of the podcasts 'Someone Talked!' and 'World War 2 Live'. Edited by Tim Arstall. Produced by Tomos Delargy. Senior Producer was Freddy Chick. Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe .   All music from Epidemic Sounds. American History Hit is a History Hit podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Don

Guest: John C. McManus

Topics covered

• D-Day
• Eisenhower
• Allied forces
• military history
• amphibious invasion
• American officer training
• British weather

Keywords

• D-Day
• Eisenhower
• Allied invasion
• military strategy
• World War II
• John C. McManus
• amphibious invasion
• American training

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Missouri University of Science and Technology, History Hit, Epidemic Sounds, Acast

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