[Perdogg]

It was the greatest, and probably the last, large scale amphibious assault in history.

[reg45]

It (the Normandy invasion) would have been dwarfed by Olympic and Downfall, the operations planned for the invasion of Japan in late 1945 and early 1946, but fortunately for all concerned, President Truman rendered those invasions moot through the use of advanced technology.

[ExpatGator]

Greatest large scale amphib assault? Yes.

Last large scale amphib assault? No.

Inchon. Not as big, but just as audacious and successful.

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks Perdogg. Lucky for us the Washington Post can't run for President. Unfortunately, they can run by proxy, and Obama is that proxy. That said, the Germans failed to achieve a rapid victory (a result predicted by German and French military thinkers in the first WW) and wound up in a war of attrition. But the D-Day invasion to open a second front was a necessity, as Stalin himself knew. The Wehrmacht and Waffen SS was in continuous retreat after the Kurst salient in June '43, but Stalin knew a second front was needed because the Red Army was still being bled dry at a fiendish rate. Even at the very end, using whatever was around and whatever manpower could be scraped together, the Germans inflicted over 600,000 casualties (the figure may be a good deal higher; or maybe that was 600K killed) in the defense of Berlin (mostly against Ukrainian and Byelorussian army corps). November 2008 -- Be There. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[metesky]

It was the greatest, and probably the last, large scale amphibious assault in history.

Inchon.