(June 6, 2014 at 1:42 pm)Brian37 Wrote: One thing I still have yet to understand about the war itself in it's entirety. Japan sucker punched us into it with Peril Harbor in 41, but D-Day didn't happen until 44 and the war ended just several months later? So if we were fighting both prior to D-Day why did it take so long when D-Day seemed to make it so quick? Someone's going to say strategy I am sure.
Because quite simply we were waiting for the Russians to beat the Germans down, and it took Russians until middle of 1944 to put Germany into a fatal headlock from which it could not escape.
We entered European land theater in middle of 1944 because if we wait any longer, Russia was going to overrun all of Germany of walk off with all of the spoils.
The war only lasted 11month after we landed only partly because we added our forces to those of the Russians. The main reason was the Russians had set up the Germans to receive some of the heaviest blows ever dealt by one army upon another in the months leading up to D-day. Right after D-day the Russians sprung their trap and delt a series of defeat on the Germans that absolutely dwarved what British and Americans were doing in Normandie.
