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Well there it is. It wont work, but you must bloody well make it, said the chief of Britains military leaders, when he gave orders to begin planning for what became known as Operation Overlord. While many view D-Day as one of the most successful operations of World War II, most arent aware of the intensive year of planning and political tension between the Allies that preceded the amphibious military landing on June 6, 1944. This intriguing history reveals how President Franklin D. Roosevelt, while on a fishing trip in the middle of World War II, altered his attitude toward Winston Churchill and became an advocate for Operation Overlord.
Philip Padgett challenges the known narrative of this watershed moment in history and illuminates the diplomatic link between Normandy and the atomic bomb. He shows how the Allies came to agree on a liberation strategy that began with D-Dayand the difficult forging of British and American scientific cooperation that produced the atomic bomb. At its core this story is about how a new generation of leaders found the courage to step beyond national biases in a truly allied endeavor to carry out one of historys most successful military operations.

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From the very first sentence, this is a gripping tale that illuminates the critical transition from World War II into the Atomic Age. Exhaustively documented, this book is a treasure for the amateur and professional historian alike.

David Wood, Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist

A textual Bayeux Tapestry, Philip Padgetts panorama is a mesmerizing tale of how in 1943 Franklin Roosevelt rebuffed Winston Churchills passion for an exclusively Mediterranean campaign and authorized instead the Anglo-American amphibious assault on Normandy of June 6, 1944, meanwhile limiting British participation in development of the atomic bomb.

Kenneth J. Hagan, professor of history and museum director emeritus at the U.S. Naval Academy

Padgett has provided us with an excellent, extremely insightful study of the pivotal negotiations during 1943 that determined whether and how the fledgling Anglo-American alliance would solidify to make a significant contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany and go on to provide the basis for post-war western security.

Richard H. Harding, professor of organizational history at the University of Westminster and coeditor of Naval Leadership in the Atlantic World: The Age of Revolution and Reform, 17001850

Even those well versed in the history of the war will find much to ponder here, including the entanglement of Operation Overlord, the American effort to exclude the British from participation in the building of the atomic bomb, and the final transformation of Americas international role, away from hemispheric defense and toward enduring global engagement.

Daniel Moran, professor of international and military history in the Department of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and coeditor of Maritime Strategy and Global Security

Philip Padgett has provided a novel roadmap for tracing this familiar story. His Advocating Overlord is evocatively written and grounded in authoritative research in British and U.S. sources; it offers an intriguing thesis regarding the nexus of issues that led to Operation Overlord.

Theodore A. Wilson, professor emeritus of history at the University of Kansas

Very well written and very well researched in British and American archival and manuscript materials as well as published works, Philip Padgetts Advocating Overlord provides a detailed analysis of the Anglo-American disagreements over both European strategy and atomic sharing during World War II. In doing so it offers a provocative, fascinating reinterpretation of the relationship between the two disputes.

Mark A. Stoler, editor of the George C. Marshall Papers and professor emeritus of history at the University of Vermont

Advocating Overlord
Advocating Overlord
The D-Day Strategy and the Atomic Bomb

Philip Padgett

Potomac Books

An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press

2018 by Philip Padgett

Cover designed by University of Nebraska Press; cover: detail from Embarkation: Prelude to Death, art T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts/UMP Bank Trustee/licensed by VAGA , New York, NY, and the State Historical Society of Missouri.

Author photo Barbara Glaeser Photography.

All rights reserved. Potomac Books is an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Name: Padgett, Philip, author.

Title: Advocating Overlord: the D-Day strategy and the atomic bomb / Philip Padgett.

Description: Lincoln: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017052569

ISBN 9781612349626 (cloth: alk. paper)

ISBN 9781640120488 (epub)

ISBN 9781640120495 (mobi)

ISBN 9781640120501 (web)

Subjects: LCSH : Operation Overlord. | World War, 19391945Diplomatic history. | Atomic bomb.

Classification: LCC D 756.5. N 6 P 33 2018 DDC 940.54/2142dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017052569

The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.

For Mary and Lauren

In memory of John and Mary Jane

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Maps

A3 : early radiotelephone voice encryption system

ASF : Army Service Force

ASW : antisubmarine warfare

AT : troop convoy designation, United States to UK

B -17: four-engine heavy bomber

B -24: four-engine heavy bomber (with transport and maritime patrol variants)

BA : British Army

C -54: four-engine transport aircraft

CBO : Combined Bomber Offensive

CCS : Combined Chiefs of Staff (Allied)

CIGS : Chief of Imperial General Staff (UK)

COS : Chiefs of Staff (UK)

COSSAC : Chief of Staff to Supreme Allied Commander, an organization and an officers title

CVE : escort aircraft carrier

CU : convoy designation, Caribbean to Liverpool

ETOUSA : European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army

HF/DF : high frequency direction

HMS : His Majestys Ship

HX : convoy designation, Halifax (later New York) to Liverpool

HXS : convoy designation, Halifax (later New York) to Liverpool, slow

JCS : Joint Chiefs of Staff (U.S.)

JIC : Joint Intelligence Committee

JPC : Joint Planning Committee (UK)

JSSC : Joint Strategy Survey Committee (U.S.)

JWPC : Joint War Planning Committee (U.S.)

KMF : convoy designation, Firth of Clyde to Mediterranean

MKF : convoy designation, Mediterranean to Firth of Clyde

OKW : Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, German Supreme Command of the Armed Forces

ON : convoy designation, outbound north, Liverpool to Halifax

ONS : convoy designation, outbound north slow, Liverpool to Halifax

OPD : Operations Division (U.S. Army)

OSRD : Office of Scientific Research and Development (U.S.)

RAF : Royal Air Force

RCMP : Royal Canadian Mounted Police

RMS : Royal Mail Ship

RN : Royal Navy

S -1: code name, atomic bomb development, U.S. term equivalent to Tube Alloy

SHAEF : Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

TA : Tube Alloy

TU : fast troop convoy designation, British Isles to United States

USA : U.S. Army

USAAF : U.S. Army Air Force

USAT : U.S. Army Transport

USN : U.S. Navy

USS : United States Ship

USSBS : U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey

UT : fast troop convoy designation, United States to British Isles

VHF : very high frequency

VLR : very long range

WSA : War Shipping Administration

Abraham: code name for Quebec City

Anakim: operation name, Allies proposed invasion of Burma

Arcadia: code name, Allies first conference, Washington

Avalanche: operation name, Allies invasion at Salerno, near Naples, Italy

Bolero: operation name, U.S. buildup in UK

Cockade: operation name, series of 1943 Allied deceptions

D-Day: designated day for Normandy landings, the first phase of Overlord

Enigma: Germanys text encryption machine

Eureka: code name, Allies sixth conference, Tehran

Gold: Normandy beach, British landing point

Gymnast: operation name, Allies North Africa landings; became Torch

Husky: operation name, Allies invasion of Sicily

Jubilee: operation name, raid on Dieppe, France

Juno: Normandy beach, Canadian landing point

Jupiter: operation name, Allies invasion of Norway; not conducted

Manhattan Project: secret U.S. project to develop and produce atomic bomb

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