Stressful Anticipation
Keeping the enemy guessing was critical to Allied success during World War II, and American media outlets provided very little new information to mothers and fathers about their son’s whereabouts after he arrived in France after the war ended. All that Americans could do was watch German news broadcasts to try to get a sense of the devastation and bow their heads in supplication.
Stressful Anticipation
Prayers From The Homefront
From the perspective of the home front, D-day was a day of blindness, in that there was nothing more than a newspaper headline to alert Americans that a massive landing was taking place across the Atlantic. A large number of people took to the streets in the United States, with some participating in rallies and others attending prayer services.
Prayers From The Homefront
