Transcription: As the Allied troops prepared to embark, a huge storm blew up on the English Channel. Eisenhower reluctantly postponed the planned June 5 invasion until the 6th. Rommel, believing that the weather conditions precluded a major invasion for at least another two weeks, left for Germany to celebrate his wife's birthday on the 6th. His timing could not have been worse. On the night of the 5th, 22,000 men of the British 6th Division and the American 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions set out for France, the British to drop behind the German lines and secure the Orne Bridge in the east, the Americans ...
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