D Day Failure Essay

Like in any “what if” scenario, nobody knows exactly what would have happened if D-Day at Normandy in World War II had failed. Stephen E. Ambrose attempts to wrap readers’ minds around the idea in his article D Day Fails. One of the most surprising aspects of a D-Day failure is that it still does not necessarily result in a Nazi victory. Moreover, the failure of the attack on Normandy would bring up a Soviet Union victory or, even worse, a time where there is a completely communist Europe. A D-Day failure would have drastically altered the U.S. Pacific campaign, and even would have halted, or at least redirected, the dropping of the atomic bomb. To be able to determine a time where D-Day failed, one must first be able to find outcomes that would result in said failure. One big variable that could have altered the win at Normandy would be the weather. The invasion, code named Overlord, was already running a day behind (Ambrose, 1). Storms scattered the beaches of Normandy, and without a clear sky, the troops would not have been successful. In fact, the outcome would have been horrendous: “Men trying to go ashore from
Not only would it have caused Eisenhower’s resignation, but a failure at Normandy would have resulted in a complete communist takeover. It would have left everyone besides the Soviet Union at the end of World War II feeling threatened and scared. The Germans and Japanese would have been crushed indefinitely, and the Allied army would have been wary of the new world power that is communism. Stephen Ambrose’s reflection on the variables changed if D-Day had failed were catastrophic to say the least. A brief change in a single instance of the war could have immensely altered the life world as we know it today. In all, if D-Day had failed, we all could be pledging our lives to a communist country, with no signs of it ever