D-Day 66th Anniversary

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by STEED

June 1944 was a double blow to Hitler, first from the West then latter in the month from the East.

June 5th/6th 1944

Airborne operations followed by the sea landings by the western Allies.

Later on, the Ost Front...

June 23rd 1944

Operation Bagration, the Red Army launches as massive summer operation that would result in the destruction of Army Group Centre.

Hitler feared two major fronts and now he pays the price of his mistakes.

Curiously, the early probing attacks for Operation Bagration were executed on June 22nd, the same day as Barbarossa.

While the usually forgotten Operation Bagration was probably much more decisive in winning the war than Overlord was, had Overlord not been executed much of western Europe would have fallen under the Soviet heel as the east. So, salute!