[dfwgator]

D-Day was inherently a turning point in the European Theater of WW II because,

It was the second one, Kursk was the first.

[Rockingham]

In part, that is a rerun of the old argument about the relative importance of the Eastern and Western fronts in WW II. Yet, with a different ideology and war aims, the USSR was in the long run a competitor and adversary to the US and the Western allies. With that in mind, I am hard put to rate Soviet victories in WW II as highly as those of the Western allies.