Seventy-five years ago, a Gallup poll conducted shortly before the June 6, 1944, Allied landing in Normandy (now known as D-Day) found that many Americans were unclear about why the U.S. was fighting the war. In the March 1944 poll, 59% of respondents said they had a “clear idea” of what the U.S. was fighting for, while 41% did not.
In addition to many Americans’ uncertainty ahead of D-Day as to why the war was being fought, they had become more pessimistic about when the war would end. CONT.
RJ Reinhart, Gallup