how was the normandy invasion a turning point for ww2?

Answer 1

he Normandy Invasion was the biggest turning point. The Bulge was another but I think the invasion itself was more significant. The Bulge ate up the last of German reserves and cost them alot of tanks and planes they were ill equipped to lose. Those troops could have been used to more effect. SOme say it helped the Soviets because the Germans would have had those additional reserves to stop the Soviet advance and slow it down. That is true but it would not have stopped them completely only delayed matters and cost them more lives. After the Bulge resistence in the West got lighter and made for a more rapid advance. The objective was to deal the Allies a major blow and try to get them to agree to some peace treaty or at least deal them such a blow that they would not be able to conduct operations for a year an din the meantime Germany could concentrate on the East. Once this failed there really was no hope of staving off defeat which was only months away.


The Battle of Normandy was fought in 1944 between Nazi Germany in Western Europe and the invading Allied forces as part of the larger conflict of World War II. Over sixty years later, the Normandy invasion, codenamed Operation Overlord, still remains the largest seaborne invasion in history, involving almost three million troops crossing the English Channel from England to Normandy in then German-occupied France. It is most commonly known by the name D-Day.

The primary Allied formations that saw combat in Normandy came from the United States of America, United Kingdom and Canada. Substantial Free French and Polish forces also participated in the battle after the assault phase, and there were also contingents from Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, the Netherlands, and Norway.[5]

The Normandy invasion began with overnight parachute and glider landings, massive air attacks, naval bombardments, and an early morning amphibious phase began on June 6. The “D-Day” forces deployed from bases along the south coast of England, the most important of these being Portsmouth. The battle for Normandy continued for more than two months, with campaigns to establish, expand, and eventually break out of the Allied beachheads, and concluded with the liberation of Paris and the fall of the Falaise pocket in late August 1944.[6]

The Battle of Normandy was described thus by Adolf Hitler : “In the East, the vastness of space will... permit a loss of territory... without suffering a mortal blow to Germany’s chance for survival. Not so in the West! If the enemy here succeeds… consequences of staggering proportions will follow within a short time.”[7]

Answer 2

A very brief explanation is:
On June 6, 1944, a date known ever since as D-Day, a mighty armada crossed a narrow strip of sea from England to Normandy, France, and cracked the Nazi grip on western Europe.

Answer 3

This is the first time that Germany lost any significant territory. Italy had lost some through Operation Torch, but face it, Italy was a 2nd class power being held up by the German war machine.

Answer 4

Wow! Thankss! just what I was looking for. I looked for the answers on other websites but I couldn't find them.

Answer 5

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