D-Day by the numbers: Here's what it took 76 years ago to pull off the biggest amphibious invasion in history

Business Insider via Yahoo ^ | 6/06/21 | Ryan Pickrell

[Libloather]

And not one cell phone. Imagine that.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“””D-Day by the numbers: Here’s what it took 76 years ago to pull off the biggest amphibious invasion in history”””

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Obviously the author of this story is a graduate of an institute of higher learning with an advanced degree in ‘new’ mathematics. I believe it was 77 years ago.

[Fiji Hill]

The scale of the assault was unlike anything the world had seen before or will most likely ever see again.

The invasion of Sicily in 1943 was also substantial, in that it involved about 150,000 troops, 3,000 ships and more than 4,000 aircraft.

[RedStateRocker]

Beat me by two minutes...

[walkingdead]

Okinawa deserves a look too. For instance the Battle of Okinawa involved more ground troops, landing on the beach-heads than Normandy.

[Jim Noble]

By that summer, the Allies had managed to slow the forward march of the powerful German war machine Soviet Union had basically won the war, and the end of Nazi Germany was inevitable.

Fixed it.

[AlaskaErik]

Ummm...that was 77 years ago, not 76.

[ealgeone]

With substantial US and British help.

Left on their own the Soviets would have lost to Germany. Presuming a battle only between Germany and Russia.

[OKSooner]

Dad told me about meeting the Russians.

“Here they come, driving Studebaker trucks.”

[ealgeone]

yep. iirc we gave them something like 250,000 trucks.

[OKSooner]

Sherman tanks too, believe it or not.

[ealgeone]

Yes! We gave them a whole bunch of stuff from tanks down to cans of spam.

[Stosh]

Had a buddy of mine who would always insist it was the Russkies who won the war, and who certainly paid the greater butcher’s bill when it came to the dead and wounded.

To which I’d always reply they damn well better have ended up with the sh*tty end of that stick, since it was the stinking Ribbentrop-Molotov pact that allowed the Nazis to gain the momentum to get the upper hand in Europe in the first place.

[metmom]

My uncle was part of that.

He said they were all terrified and not one of them expected to make it out alive.

He just passed about a year ago. Made it into his mid-ninties.

[ought-six]

“Left on their own the Soviets would have lost to Germany. Presuming a battle only between Germany and Russia.”

Very true. But some people seem to have an agenda, so reality is “flexible.”

[dfwgator]

The Soviets were thrilled when Hitler was invading France and bombing Britain, they even gave Hitler a lot of material for his war machine during those years. Even in the 1941 May Day Parade, six weeks before the Operation Barbarossa started, Nazi and Soviet Generals were in Red Square saluting each other.

[from occupied ga]

True in my old math 2021 - 1944 = 77. The author must be using Democrat math where arithmetic is racist.

[The MAGA-Deplorian]

I think that yahoo has a “special program” for journalistic retards that write their stories from Wikipedia articles.

[Captain Peter Blood]

And meanwhile on the Eastern Front!

[Captain Peter Blood]

Very True, The Eastern Front is the forgotten part of the war and brutality of it stuns the imagination.