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I hope you don’t consider this intrustive, @oriskany , but there was something I find important that I’d like to add. Eisenhower’s use of the term United Nations is a bit more far reaching than many people may think. As is typically known, the ‘main’ nations present on D-Day, and the campaigns in Normandy that followed, may have been the U.S., U.K., and Canada, but many others took part as well. The French were present not just as Resistance fighters, but as the Free French Army and even Commando units. There were also Dutch, Poles, Czechoslovakas, Danes, Greeks, Belgians and even Australians and New Zealanders. While the ‘smaller’ nations may not have contributed as much as the U.S. or Britain it’s important to remember that it truly was a joint effort to pull off the largest seaborne landing in history.