Wasn't alive that day, but I still honor and remember!
From this Air Force retiree:
It is now very chic to disparage and lay hate on the Russians for Putin’s catastrophic and disastrous decision to invade Ukraine. Yet wonder what would have happened on D Day if the Russians did not fight like demons from 1941-1944 and inflicted over 2.5 million casualties on the German army. If the German army had been intact in June 1944 could America have liberated Europe in 10 months with relatively few casualties? How many Americans would not exist today because their grandfathers and fathers would have been killed or mutilated? America, like it or not, owes the Russian people a great debt.
"Exactamundo!" ~ Arthur Fonzarelli
D-Day Fact #7:
Happy Days... created by a man named Marshall... Garry, George...
(Time for a mighty rescue.)
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Not true. Stalingrad decisively turned the tide.
Even before D-Day, Hitler had already lost the war. Italy was gone, and the Russian tide was inexorably on the march.
I once read that D-Day was launched primarily to prevent Russia from taking most of Europe.
Stalin was of the opinion that Russia had done most of the fighting, and suffered most of the casualties, whereupon the Allies came in at the last moment to steal the prize.
Stalin had wanted the Allies to enter much earlier. Instead, from his point of view, the Allies waited until their entry was no longer needed.
Not technically correct. OVERLORD contained no operational details - in particular, any mention of the target area or the date was specifically excluded. As an additional layer of security, that info was in NEPTUNE (amongst other plans).
Looking at OVERLORD as the strategic plan and NEPTUNE as the tactical plan might be a useful (if imperfect) way to think of it.
Wasn't alive that day, but I still honor and remember!
From this Air Force retiree: