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It's hard to remember now,
but Europe was like this in 1944.
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The Second World War
was in its fifth year...
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and still going Hitler's way.
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German troops
controlled most of Europe.
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D-Day changed all that.
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D-Day: June 6, 1944...
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when the Allied forces, under
their commander General Eisenhower...
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Ianded on the northern
coast of France.
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By July they were able
to begin their own offensive.
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By August, Paris was liberated.
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Everywhere the Germans retreated.
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But with the Allied victories
came problems.
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Supplies still had to be driven
from Normandy, over 400 miles away...
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and became dangerously short.
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The Allied advance
began to come to a halt.
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Another problem
facing Eisenhower was this:
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his two most famous generals--
Patton, who was in the south...
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and Montgomery in the north--
disliked each other intensely.
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The longstanding rivalry
had never been more fierce.
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There simply were not
enough supplies for both armies.
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Each wanted to be the one
to defeat the Germans.
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Each wanted to beat
the other to Berlin.