How D-Day Almost Became a Disaster

Operation Overlord, the Allied landings in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944 — commonly called “D-Day” –– was the largest combined air-and-sea military operation in history.  If successful, it would signal the beginning of the end for Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.  If it failed, the course of history since that date would be remarkably different from what we know today.  And the success of the operation did hang on a very slender thread. Denver author, magazine editor, and award-winning military historian Flint Whitlock will talk about how, despite years of planning and rehearsal, D-Day almost became a disaster for the Allies.

Author and military historian Flint Whitlock graduated from the Army’s Airborne School at Ft. Benning, Georgia, in 1965 and spent five years on active duty, including a combat tour in Vietnam. He is the author of nine books, six of which are about World War II, and is currently the editor of WWII Quarterly. He has appeared in documentaries on the History Channel and on the television series War Stories with Oliver North.