The target for the Allied landing forces would be the beaches of Normandy in France. To win the war, however, Germany would have to be defeated on the ground in Western Europe and 1944 would be the year the Allies would finally return and powerfully strike back. An Allied raid on the French coast at Dieppe in August 1942 would result in heavy losses, especially for Canadian troops, but the Allies would slowly turn the tide against the powerful enemy war machine in North Africa, Italy, on the Eastern Front, in the skies over Europe and on the Atlantic Ocean. The conquered countries on the continent would suffer greatly under a harsh occupation in the years that followed. A narrow stretch of sea, the English Channel, was all that separated the surging enemy forces from Great Britain, but the island nation held firm. Germany invaded much of Western Europe in the spring of 1940, during the opening months of the Second World War. This publication is available upon request in alternate formats.
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