What if D-Day Had Failed?
On June 6, 1944, the Allied powers had started its immense attack on Hitler’s territory in Normandy, France. Luckily, Rommel, the man in charge of German defenses in France had left due to his wife’s birthday. Thanks to the United States efforts on the Utah and Omaha beaches and Britain and Canada’s attack on Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches through the use of aircrafts and ships, Germany was definitely weakened. This all caused D-Day to be a huge success.
What if this important allied victory had failed? Well, around the time when it was being planned, there was a lot of horrible weather, making the mission risky. Luckily there was one decent day that allowed the Allies to begin its attack. Overall, D-Day was only postponed one day (Stafford). If the Allies had waited any longer, Germany would have expected something to occur; the bad weather was one of the only things keeping Germany from expecting an attack.
At Omaha Beach, the United States had lost many American lives to the Germans. If the landings of the troops had been delayed due to the weather, the Germans would have been ready and we would not be able to try again for months without the Germans being suspicious (Stafford). Even further, Germany would begin focusing on taking Russia even more and end up being taken over. This would leave a large portion of Europe Communist (Stafford).
Many American lives were lost at Omaha Beach.
Even Eisenhower wondered if D-Day was going to fail. He wrote a note just in case this had happened.