1. Battle of the Bulge and the
D-day attacks !
U.S. and other allies strike the
German Nazi army!
2. By 1944, the Soviet Union ‘red
army’ had drove Hitler’s German
Nazi army out of their country!
3. The allies had also fought hard to
drive Italy and Mussolini out of
Africa!
4. Things were looking better but Hitler’s Nazi
Germany STILL controlled France and
Poland and other small countries in Western
Europe!
5. U.S. head general Dwight Eisenhower knew Germany had
to be driven out of France and he knew the United States
army would have to help do it!
6. They chose a spot on the tip of France
called NORMANDY to launch their invasion!
7. General Dwight Eisenhower speaks to the troops
before sending them to attack on D-day! He knew
many U.S. soldiers would die in the coming attack
on Hitler’s Nazi army!
8. The United States knew France must be taken from Hitler’s
Nazi army. 175,000 soldiers attacked on June 6, 1944!
Here they are coming toward the beach at France where
machine guns wait on them!!
14. But, the invasion was a success as
thousands of Allied troops pushed miles into
France! The Allied forces drove the German
Nazis back and slowly began to capture
France again for the people of that country!
15. One young U.S. soldier wrote in a
letter home after D-day that:
“Events taking place today will be read
about by kids in the future at school!”
Guess he was right huh?
16. • Let’s watch a short movie
about the D-day attack…Let’s
see what it was really like that
horrible day in 1944 when U.S.
soldiers invaded that beach in
France while the German
Nazis waited on them.
17. The U.S. soon dropped even more soldiers
by parachute behind German lines and guns
into France and attacked again!
18. They chased the German Nazi army out of
every town they came to!
19. In the COLD December of 1944,
the Germans made one final
attempt to keep control of
France.
• This battle called ‘The Battle of the Bulge’
would be the biggest battle EVER fought
by the United States army. My husband’s
daddy fought in it!
20. U.S. soldiers fought to stay warm as they fought
back the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge in
France!
21. Hitler threw all his weapons at the
U.S. army. He bombed constantly!
22. U.S. soldiers march down a muddy road in
France between fighting at the Battle of the
Bulge.
28. Sometimes, all it took was just one bullet in the
wrong place. This man and his helmet survived D-
day but fell at the Battle of the Bulge a few months
later.
29. Nazi soldiers gunned down U.S.
prisoners of war that were captured
at the Battle of the Bulge
30. A U.S. soldier fires a snow-covered
machine gun at the Battle of the
Bulge.
31. Both sides had so, so many dead
at the end of each day of fighting.
33. Brave medic teams risked their
lives daily to get the injured off the
battle field to safety.
34. This cemetery in France is where thousands of U.S.
soldiers were buried that fought at the Battle of the Bulge.
77,000 Allied soldiers died at the Battle of the Bulge.
Fortunately, my husband’s daddy wasn’t one of these men.
35. The new World War II memorial in Washington
D.C. remembers the men who fought in Europe
against the Germans and those who fought in the
Pacific Ocean against Japan.
