D-Day

German forces in Normandy, France

The real merit of the Allied invasion of Europe that started on June 6th 1944, and I mean no disrespect to the thousands of Allied personnel KIA, was to stop the Red Army coming too far west. That and hastening the end of the war in Europe. By the summer of 1944, it was pretty much clear who was going to win the war in Europe, and Germany wasnt it. Germany was by that time doomed and was too far gone the path of destruction to hope to win the war in the East any more, except if they developed atomics ( a highly unlikely situation due to lack of vision from its leadership, in spite the fact that they had the resources in materiel and brainpower to beat the Americans to it) which could have turned the tide to a negotiated peace at least. If D-day had not happened/had failed there would have been nothing to stop the Russians from taking the whole of Germany, France, Northern Italy, the whole of Scandinavia and perhaps even Spain and Portugal, all the way to the Azores. I am sure this terrifying situation had crossed the minds of the strategists planning the opening of a second front in Western Europe in the summer of 1944, although the average GI Joe had a far less wider vision of things. The landings in Normandy hastened the end of the war in Europe by a few months at most. It would have ended anyway with the complete victory of the Red Army sometime in August-September 1945, instead of May as it happened. With 90% of the European Continent under Soviet occupation and being an integral part of the Eastern Bloc, except Britain, South Italy, Turkey and a few islands in the Mediterranean, the strategic setting for the western allies in the post-WW2 world would have been dire. Britain, Turkey and maybe the south of Italy would have been the sole outposts of democracy and freedom in an otherwise barbaric post war European continent. The Soviets would have had unrestricted access to the Atlantic with a very powerful blue-water navy, there would have been no NATO and very possibly a very powerfull USSR might have started WW3 after they had atomics themselves. As things happened however, the successful British-American invasion of France in 1944 stopped the Russians dead-cold on the Elbe in 1945, with only half of Europe under their control.

It was necessary to win the war and the Allies winning D-Day resulted in the liberation of France in August 1944.

it was a turning point in ww2

Calais is the closest mainland Europe is to England, where the sea-borne assault was to be launched.

Several.

1. It was the largest invasion army ever gathered.

2. It allowed the Allies to penetrate and gain a foothold in Hitler's "fortress Europe" for the first time since the disaster of the British Expeditionary Force's retreat from Dunkirk in France in 1940.

3. It marked the beginning of the end of the German Third Reich.

4. It helped end World War II, not without great cost in terms of human lives and suffering.

5. It began the liberation of France. Vive la France, vive la liberte!

6. It showed that a multinational force (British, French, American, Canadian, Austrialian, New Zealander) could successfully coordinate and carry out a hazardous and difficult offensive military campaign against a tough and well trained army. (Yeah we did this in World War One, but nowhere near as decisively as D Day at Normandy.)

Total allied casualties (killed, wounded, missing, or captured) are estimated at approximately 10,000 for Allies.And for Germany it's estimated to be between 4,000 and 9,000 casualties

Specifics

United States-6,603, of which 2,499 fatal.

United Kingdom-2,700.

Canada-1,074, of which 359 fatal.

D-day was amazing invasion, massive forces, deception, and power demonstrated. the Atlantic Wall was the German defensive perimeters surrounding the northern part of there Empire. the German Army was the Best in the world at the beginning of the war and would easily have defeated Russia if they did not fight England as well but any way the Germans caused many losses among the Alia invaders but the Americans toke the beach head so its up to you to deiced but i would say the Americans.

It was a turning point for the war on terror. 9/11 closely followed this event.

who ever wrote this is an idiot. the invasion of Normandy started the war for the oceans between the US and japan during WWII. it was at least a generation before 9/11.

Two idiots the invasion of Normandy opened the long awaited second front against Nazi Germany. British, Canadian and US forces landed on the Normandy beaches on the 6th June 1944 (D-Day). This placed Hitler's armies in the jaws of a vice between these forces in the west and the Soviet Russian armies in the east.

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it was difficult because thousands of men and material had to be landed on the beaches of France under German fire. Then they had to make their way inland and hope that Hitler didn't unleash his panzers on the troops and throw them back into the sea. The navy, army, and air corps all had to work together to execute this daring plan right under the nose of the best German field commander, erwin rommel.

allied forces : less than 2000

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Operation Torch, initially called Operation Gymnast

they had fortified the beaches with cannons and machinegun implacemens. Barbed wire and steel beach obstacles to snare landing craft...............

The Isle of Barra in Scotland.

A place in north eastern France called Normandy.

if any, they were American, Canadian or British citizens

November 12th 1965 was a Friday.

D Day is a misnomer. The battle for the Normandy beachhead lasted a little longer than a day despite the name. The first day cost the Allies from 8,000 to 10,000 dead depending on your source. The Germans lost over 3,000 dead. There were much bloodier battles and many of them went on for days, weeks, and months without a winner.

The Anzio (Italy) beachhead was fought over from January, 1943 until a sucessful breakout resulted in the capture of Rome in June, 1944. Allied casaulties (USA/UK/CAN) numbered 4,400 dead and German casualities were 5,500 killed.

The Battle of Bulge could be said to last from 16 December, 1944 to the 25 of January, 1945. The USA lost over 19,000 men, the British 200, and the Germans were at least 83,000 dead. This was the bloodiest battle for the USA but not the bloodiest battle of the war.

In the East the Battle of Stalingrad went on for 7 months in 1942 and 43. Total military casualities 750,000 dead on both sides. Civilian casualities were 478,000 dead.

The Siege of Leningrad lasted September, 1941 to January, 1944. When the battle was over Soviet dead was (depending on your source) 650,000 to 810,000. Many of the dead were civilians.

A person could also make the claim that the Allied bombing campaigns could be battles as a city would be targeted for a series of bombings over a period of a day or two. Dresden lost 80,000 dead in one attack. Tokyo, Japan suffered over 100,000 dead in one series of raids.

D-Day was bloody, very bloody but it was far from the most deadly battle.

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