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Why did the allies not advance through northern Italy into Austria instead of the D-day landings?
Jwilliammerrington
To transport the Allied forces based in England would have been a huge undertaking, crossing U boat lines and sailing all the way down the European coastline. Crossing the English channel was a tad easier being only 26 miles across. Thus, the logistics of attacking through the south of France or through Italy were impossible. The time and movement involved would have also alerted the Axis forces, which would have made such an attack extremely costly.
There were only a limited number of spots across the channel which were feasible. This could have also been very costly if the Axis had been certain that's what the allies would do. But clever manipulation of intelligence, involving a "secret" message on a British corpse, dummy battalions composed of wood and inflatable tanks, and fake message traffic, convinced the Axis that the landing would take place in the south of France, and that a fake landing would be aimed at Normandy. This was so convincing that when the landing actually happened, it was many hours before the German High Command was convinced that the Normandy landing was the real thing.
there is also the slight problem that to invade Spain or Italy they would have had to attack Africa and gain a foothold there first
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 11y agoProject Overlord made more sense to get an overwhelming amount of troops to the point of attack quickly.
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