Would the D day landings have failed for the Allies?

Question

if Rommel had been present and not away for his wifes birthday and also if he was allowed full command of the defence, without having to ask Hilters permission to release the panzers?
and if so would the outcome of the second world war have been different?

Answer 1

The whole outcome of WWII would've been completely different if Hitler would have empowered his sub ordinates. Because he was a paranoid control freak any immediate advantage the Germans had would dissipate before the Fuhrer had his input. Also the German forces had very experienced military leaders, not just Rommel, who would've made better decisions. Had the war been going differently would the US have joined the Allies? If they hadn't then indeed things would've gone completely different.

Answer 2

It wouldn't have made a difference if he didn't have full command of the panzer's. If he did then he would have made life very rough but the fact is that we would have taken that beach anyway as the fleet was right there to destroy any panzer thrust to the coast the same way the allies creamed panzer's at the invasion of Sicily. So we always would have a 15-20 mile no tank zone. it should also be remembered that the allies owned the sky the panzer's couldn't move by day. those who would have suffered most were the paratroopers they would have been wiped out by the panzer's. The other big difference would have been the battle of the hedge rows would have been that much more difficult with Rommel directing the defense.

Answer 3

That's a great question..

The Allies would have had far more casualties but the outcome would have been the same s imply because the Germans could not match the Allies in war production. The USA had turned its entire industrial might over to ar production with plentiful supplies of materials and machines. The Germans on the other hand were loosing in the east and so where facing mounting loses of both men and materials which simply couldn't be replaced.

Rommel was good but even he couldn't hold back the tied of defeat..

Answer 4

The landings probably would have failed but the outcome of the war would have been the same. The most experienced troops that the Germans had were fighting on the Eastern front and the Russians had already begun to stem the German attack there and turn the war around. So if the D-Day landingshad failed then all of Western Europe would have come under Russian control!!!!

Answer 5

I doubt very much if the presence of one man would have made that much difference.Any invading army would have had to have stopped on the beaches. Once ashore and established the Allies could pour in their superiority of weaponry and manpower, and the writing was on the wall, from then on Germany was on the defencive in both the West and the East.Eventually something would have given way. Of course D-day was not the end of the war and there were a couple of serious setbacks for the allies on all fronts but at the end of the day the result would have been the same.

Answer 6

The split command was a problem, but the compromise was probably not different from either Rommel's idea or Rundstedt's in outcome. Rommel would have gotten the panzers shot to bits by naval gunfire, Rundstedt by the air forces, as the two had pointed out about each others' ideas in the planning stages.

Answer 7

via June 1944, Germany had particularly lost the conflict. If D-Day failed then it failed. enormous deal. yet another touchdown might've been prepared. the only distinction is that this 2nd attempt does no longer have the ingredient of marvel and can've been lots greater good to effectively enforce. that is extremely a risk that whether the Allies in no way landed in France, Germany might've nonetheless lost the conflict. via then, the Soviet Union develop into unstoppable and the conflict of Berlin develop into inevitable. Edit: The Allies had already occupied Italy and for this reason had a foothold on mainland Europe. The Allies ought to've moved into France or Germany from Italy yet they could no longer be troubled crossing the Alps. It wasn't as though D-Day develop into the 1st ever time Allied infantrymen touched mainland eu soil. that is why i'm hoping sooner or later Hollywood will make a movie suitable to the Italian marketing campaign to take the limelight faraway from D-Day and teach 0.5 of united statesa. to comprehend that D-Day develop into no longer something greater beneficial than an amphibious attack. It wasn't as though WW2 develop into gained and lost on the Normandy seashores. in case you want to be attentive to which defense force engagements had severe "what if" effects if it failed, try the conflict of Moscow or conflict of Stalingrad.

Answer 8

So many if's and variables.
The allies had already taken italy via landing craft, therefore had experience.
many double bluffs to confuse the germans into where, if at all a france landing would take place.
rommel when in charge of the defence, hated the line given, demanded more materials, commuincation, men etc.
Hitler, was asleep when the allies invaded, and his aides didn't want to wake him up, for fear of been shot ( thats dicatorship for you ). This was a bonus for the allies.
rommel as soon as he heard left to go to the battlefront. He left to see his wife after considering the weather report, and been told that the sea was to rough!!!.
IF the germans had been better organised, then a stalemate would be of the most properly answer.
operation market garden is a good example of this.
Also consider that if hitler had kept bombing the airfields and depleting our only real defence then operation sealion would have taken place and the germans invaded us. But because we started to bomb german cities, hitler copied, therefore giving the allies a breathing space.
the outcome would have been different in any secerino, any historian would give you a differnt outcome.
just like into any sci-fi film, this a story line that most use.
Also a book by Jack higgins ( i think ) with the nazis running the uk.
Long winded but the answer is YES

Answer 9

The outcome would ahve been the same .It would have just took longer and casualties would have been much higher.


The allies were already landed in Itlay and making steady progress.

Nothing could have stopped the D Day landing.The allies had total air superiority.The sheer size of the operation made it unstoppable.

RAF and USAF bombing of germany and communications networks were strangling the germans ability to wage war.

All this said, the Red army steam roller was a guaranteed end to the third reich regardless of a western front.Indeed the western front was as much to save Europe from the soviets as from the germans!

Answer 10

Say "if" the Allies had been thrown back into the sea, it would not have altered the fact that the Soviets were advancing steadily and virtually unstoppably upon Germany, if anything the success of the D-Day landings probably saved German lives. The important difference would have been that the Soviets would have grabbed all the German Rocket scientists, now wouldn't that have made the 60's interesting.