D Day is militarily irrelevant. Without D Day Germany would still have lost the war. D Day was more political than tactical. It was about appeasing the Russians and securing a stake at the table for the Allies. The race to Berlin was not about Patton and Montgomery, it was about West V East.
Most Americans like to think they were the difference in WW2. America won the war!! ooooraaah.
Truth is Russia won the war and even without American intervention they would have defeated Germany. Weight of numbers. Simple mathematics.
The forces defending Normandy and subsequent Western theatre actions were but a fraction of those engaged with the Russians. The West deludes itself that it won WW2 but in reality Russia carried the burden and the victory belongs to them. Check this out
https://youtu.be/DwKPFT-RioU
For a myriad of reasons including over a hundred thousands of tons of reasons. I couldnt possibly disagree with this statement more. If not for America. Russia could not have won or accomplished what it did.
As on Russian General put it
""Now they say that the allies never helped us, but it can't be denied that the Americans gave us so many goods without which we wouldn't have been able to form our reserves and continue the war," Soviet General Georgy Zhukov said after the end of WWII.
"We didn’t have explosives, gunpowder. We didn’t have anything to charge our rifle cartridges with. The Americans really saved us with their gunpowder and explosives. And how much sheet steel they gave us! How could we have produced our tanks without American steel? But now they make it seem as if we had an abundance of all that. Without American trucks we wouldn’t have had anything to pull our artillery with."