Sadly, after listening to a news broadcast l suspect that these anniversaries serve merely to reinforce American misconceptions about our own importance. The news anchor commented several times how 200,000 "Americans" landed in Normandy. No. It was about 75,000 with an equivalent number of British and Canadians and some Free French.
And, a couple of weeks later the Russians unleashed Operation Bagration
Bagration dwarfed Overlord.
And, a couple of weeks later the Russians unleashed Operation Bagration
Quote:Operation Bagration (Russian: Oперация Багратион, Operatsiya Bagration) was the codename for the Soviet 1944 Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation[15] during World War II, which cleared German forces from the Belorussian SSR and eastern Poland between 22 June and 19 August 1944.[16] The operation was named after 18th–19th century Georgian Prince Pyotr Bagration, general of the Imperial Russian Army who received a mortal wound at the Battle of Borodino.
The operation resulted in the almost complete destruction of an entire German army group, with the loss of Army Group Centre's Fourth Army, Third Panzer Army and Ninth Army. It is considered the most calamitous defeat experienced by the German armed forces during the Second World War.[17][18] By the end of the operation most of the western Soviet Union had been liberated and the Red Army had achieved footholds in Romania and Poland. German losses eventually numbered well over half a million men killed or wounded, even higher than the toll at Verdun in 1916.[19]
Bagration dwarfed Overlord.
