Normandy, Allied invasion

In the following month, it happened, Secretary Morgenthau was ordered to England and France by President Roosevelt to look into the many financial problems resulting from the invasion of the Continent. The Allies had landed in Normandy on June 6 and had already secured a firm foothold in northern France when we arrived in August of 1944. 

The Normandy invasion in May 1944 led ultimately to Allied victory in Europe 12 months later. Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower visited the front lines. 

The exit road for silk was paved by 1938, a year after Carothers s death, when nylon was introduced to the world, primarily as a replacement for silk in hose and stockings and as toothbrush bristles. It is certain that the invention of nylon gravely alfected the Japanese trade balance, and in consequence, the overall position of the Japanese industry in world markets at the threshold of the Second World War. The influence of this miracle fiber, that could be produced at the fraction of the cost as its natural counterpart, is indisputable. Allied use of nylon in parachutes during the invasion of Normandy may have played a decisive role in the war s military outcome. The most obvious influence may come from its impact on consumer consumption. 

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