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    Default Could D-Day have been in 1943?

    A friend passed along a link yesterday to an article in the Ithaca (N.Y.) Journal by Cornell University history professor John H. Weiss. [LINK]

    Among the points outlined by Weiss:

    • That it should be said that it was Soviet and not American military action which was responsible for the defeat of the Germans.
      • Weiss gives the surrender of the German forces at the Battle of Stalingrad as the politically decisive event of the war and the Battle of Kursk as “the militarily decisive engagement.”
      • Weiss does go to pains to point out the importance of the American Lend-Lease program to Soviet war efforts, especially after the Battle of Stalingrad.

    • That many historians are now of a mind that Operation Overlord could have been undertaken in 1943.

    I would be interested in hearing from members of the forum as to whether this is pure hindsight or if any of the Allied generals and admirals were also advocating for the same at the time. Weiss states that the resources used in the Italian Campaign and the strategic bombing of German cities could have been put to better use.


    Again, pure hindsight?
    Last edited by davidbfpo; 06-07-2014 at 01:44 PM. Reason: Moved here with author's OK and edited slightly.
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