will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped, and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely…I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory!” It was known that the vast Nazi intelligence network
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was aware that something major was up, based on reports from its spies in Britain who reported on Allied soldiers conducting clandestine practice maneuvers — storming peaceful vacation beaches. And here in the U.S., Nazi operatives took note of the
rushed movement of huge amounts of supplies and manpower, with wartime defense plants working around the clock. Scores of U.S. and British oficers knew of the secret
D-Day plan, but were constantly reminded to keep their mouths shut with the wartime slogan “Loose lips sink ships.”
A month before the invasion, a British newspaper, The
Telegraph, was found to have used in its crossword the top-secret code names for the planned invasion beaches — “Gold,” “Sword,” “Juno,” and “Utah.” And a puzzle answer used the word “Mulberry,” the
“Preparing for World War III: The Home Front,” Michael Hochberg, a visiting scholar at the Centre for Geopolitics at Cambridge Uni- versity, and Leonard Hochberg, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Center (FPRI), predicted that China, Russia, and Iran would soon launch multiple opportunistic attacks.
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Is there any hope for America if we are involved in a global conflict? Like these heroes of faith, we
as Americans must press on in the face of adverse circumstances and the growing danger of not only a multifront war with hostile nations, but subversive internal forces that are seeking to weaken and destroy our great nation that God has used to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world for centuries. “These are the men who took
the cliffs. These are the champi- ons who helped free a continent.
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These are the heroes who helped end a war,” President Ronald Reagan said at Pointe du Hoc in France on June 6, 1984, while com- memorating the 40th anniversary of the Normandy invasion. There are men and women who
are ready and willing to put their lives on the line — if this great na- tion would only turn back from its present course and once again get on its knees. Hope is one of the greatest gifts
given to mankind by God; this is the time to resurrect hope in the national dialogue and continue the fight for freedom.
Col. David Giammona, a U.S. Army chaplain, is an author, writer, speaker, host of FrontLine, and
president of Battle Ready Ministries.
Troy Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated investigative journalist and author of Your Mission in
God’s Army.
secret name for an artificial harbor. The crossword master was interrogated by security
agents but claimed his use of the highly confidential terms was just a coincidence. One thing the Allies had going for them — breaking
the Nazi code machine called Enigma. It enabled the Allies to pinpoint many of the German emplacements. The historic landings began just after dawn. Even
before, paratroopers in the dark of night dropped inland, attacking strategic German strongholds, while crack U.S. Army Rangers maneuvered up perilous cliffs to silence enemy gun positions. The bloodiest battle was the Omaha Beach
offensive, mostly because Army intelligence reportedly underestimated the German stronghold there, and many infantrymen were gunned down by Germans. It was so bloody that Gen. Omar Bradley, who
commanded the Omaha Beach force, considered abandoning the operation. Because of rough surf, only two of 29 amphibious tanks launched at sea made it to the beach. Some 73,000 Allied forces would be killed and more
than 150,000 wounded in the fighting. An estimated 20,000 French civilians died. Still, D-Day was one of the most important victories
by the Allies. It had a major impact on German war plans, divisions were rushed back from the Russian front, and Hitler claimed he would throw the Allies back into the sea. But the Nazi response was too little too late, and an
estimated 400,000 German troops were killed. D-Day led to the liberation of France and, within a year, the total defeat of Hitler.
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