World War II Diaries:The Complete War Report
1944 July
E59 Mar 18, 2018
To date, the Allies have landed to date more than one million soldiers and one hundred and seventy thousand vehicles in northern France. The number of captured German prisoners has risen to forty thousand. General George S. Patton lands near Omaha Beach in Normandy (France) aboard a Douglas C-47 plane. He had been in England for months heading Operation Fortitude, one of the major strategies designed to deceive the Germans about the Overlord landings. Having not taken part in D-Day, Patton now has the opportunity to join the fight by commanding the Third Army. But things have greatly changed in recent months, and his subordinate in Sicily - General Omar Bradley, - is now his boss.