Procedure Sledgehammer was an Allied prepare for a cross-Channel invasion of Europe throughout World War II, as the initial step in helping to lower pressure on the Soviet Red Military by developing a 2nd Front. It was to be performed in 1942 as well as acted as a backup choice to Operation Summary, the initial Allied prepare for the intrusion of Europe in 1943. Allied forces were to take the French Atlantic ports of either Brest or Cherbourg and also areas of the Cotentin Peninsula during the early fall of 1942, and also accumulate soldiers for an outbreak in the springtime of 1943. The operation was excitedly pressed for by both the USA army and also the Soviet Union, but declined by the British, that concluded a landing in France was early, and thus not practical. Therefore, Sledgehammer was never lugged out, and instead the British proposal for an invasion of French North Africa occurred in November 1942 under the code name Procedure Torch. One of the most interesting points of th...