History[edit]

Background[edit]

After the United States entered World War II in December 1941, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff pressed for an invasion of mainland Europe via the English Channel "as soon as possible". In March 1942, in a letter to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt wrote:

Diplomatic history of World War II

Operation Bolero

Neillands, Robin (2005). . Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34781-7.

The Dieppe Raid