Standing Down Adolph Hitler
If you were to ask anybody in this country
what was America’s
“finest hour”, you might find many different answers. For most of us, we think of a handful of
incidents where the true spirit of what it means to be an American comes forth. And to some, you might hear the answer “America’s
finest hour is still ahead of it”, and that may be true. Nobody can tell that right now.
But in terms of American history, without a
doubt when America linked
arms with it’s allies and stood down the terrible threat Adolph Hitler’s Germany was
posing during World War II would have to represent the finest show of strength,
national resolve and honor in the history of the nation. And that is because during these difficult
years, America
did not just use its vast resources to save Americans and American
interests. It is not an overstatement
that by standing down Hitler,
America saved
the world.
World War 2 The Most Earthshakings In The World
World War II was without a doubt the most
devastating war in the history of the world.
The death toll worldwide from this conflict reached over sixty million
people. The aggression of the axis
powers seemed to know no limitations which only makes more dramatic the brave
stand that America, England, France and the other allied powers
showed to stand in the face of a well armed and ruthless enemy and deny them
the world domination they sought.
Its easy to look back now on how the
greatest generation, as they often have been called, found the will, the
determination to risk everything to stop Hitler’s armies. But we forget that at the time, there was no
way of knowing if the allies were going to prevail. Early in the war, Hitler seemed unstoppable
as he occupied Poland and
the invasion of Europe spread to England,
France, Norway and beyond giving Germany more and more leverage to spread the war
to Africa, into Russia and
across Asia as well. By the time the full allied force was
assembled and ready to strike back, Hitler’s advances were so deep and the
spread of the war so far reaching that at times it seemed impossible to turn
back this evil tide of military hostility that threatened to engulf the globe.
World War 2 Battleships
As often is the case, it was when America entered
the war that the allies began to see a hope to stop the horror of what Hitler
was trying to do. It took the bombing of
Pearl Harbor to put the American population on
alert that the isolation of the American continent did not mean that they would
be spared the spread of the war to their homeland unless something was
done. By attacking America’s ships at harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, the Japanese
brought the most potent military machine in the world into the war against the
axis powers which eventually spelled doom for the cause of Hitler and his
allies.
American Battle
America’s
battles on the many fronts of World War II is filled with dozens of stories of
courage and strategic brilliance that finally began to turn the war to the
favor of the allies. It took courageous
decision making at the very top levels of command to make that decision to use
the most devastating weapon man had ever known to strike Japan and speed
the end of conflicts. The toll of
dropping nuclear weapons on Japan
was horrific but America’s
president knew that by ending the conflict, tens of thousands of American lives
would be saved. Only that made it a
justifiable attack. But that attack
alone did not bring Hitler to his knees.
The turn of fortunes began on D-Day on June 5, 1944. This massive assault on the beaches of
Normandy France caught the German defenders by surprise. Nevertheless, the cost in lives was
tremendous as American and allied troops staged that massive invasion to begin
to bring the Nazi war machine down.
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