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What decided Normandy's fate was germany's lack of a navy and their air force and soldiers being locked down on the eastern front. Germany had like 5K soldiers

What decided Normandy's fate was germany's lack of a navy and their air force and soldiers being locked down on the eastern front. Germany had like 5K soldiers on the beach with no air and no naval support against the combined might of the US and UK. D-Day was 200K US/UK soldiers + US/UK navy + US/UK air force vs 5K germany soldiers. It was such a rout and easy victory that most of our casualties on that day was friendly fire and accidental drowning rather than germany bullets. D-Day is so overplayed in our media. The real fighting was in the east.

tntn 8y ago
The typical number for German combatants is closer to 50k, so I'm curious what your source is for 5k.
- gandhium 8y ago
  He also said "real fighting was in the east", so you can guess the source. Edit: also the claim "most of our casualties on that day was friendly fire and accidental drowning" is pretty ridiculous.
  - paidleaf 8y ago
    > He also said "real fighting was in the east", so you can guess the source. It's called stats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II) The vast majority of the german military and casualties, were in the eastern front. > Edit: also the claim "most of our casualties on that day was friendly fire and accidental drowning" is pretty ridiculous. It's pretty much common sense. Considering the low number of german troops, the poor coordination on our side and of course the odds of accidents and friendly fire incidents. It's pretty much a statistical certainty that most of the deaths on D-Day were accidents and friendly fire. But lets throw out common sense and statistics out the window. The germans had no navy. They had no air force. They had nothing. Against the might of the US and British power on D-Day. But we can pretend that the germans managed a 2 to 1 casualty victory. Or I'm sure that's what your "sources" will try to convince us.
- paidleaf 8y ago
  That's for the overall invasion that spanned more than a month ( AKA germans defending half of france ). I'm talking about D-Day ( 1 day ) incident where hardly any fighting took place. It was impossible for 50K german soldiers to defend the beaches because germany had no air force and no navy to protect them. The allied navy and air force pretty much cleared out the beaches and the germans had moved most of their forces to the east. Only a skeletal force of a few thousand were left to defend the beaches.

tntn 8y ago

The typical number for German combatants is closer to 50k, so I'm curious what your source is for 5k.

gandhium 8y ago
He also said "real fighting was in the east", so you can guess the source. Edit: also the claim "most of our casualties on that day was friendly fire and accidental drowning" is pretty ridiculous.
- paidleaf 8y ago
  > He also said "real fighting was in the east", so you can guess the source. It's called stats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II) The vast majority of the german military and casualties, were in the eastern front. > Edit: also the claim "most of our casualties on that day was friendly fire and accidental drowning" is pretty ridiculous. It's pretty much common sense. Considering the low number of german troops, the poor coordination on our side and of course the odds of accidents and friendly fire incidents. It's pretty much a statistical certainty that most of the deaths on D-Day were accidents and friendly fire. But lets throw out common sense and statistics out the window. The germans had no navy. They had no air force. They had nothing. Against the might of the US and British power on D-Day. But we can pretend that the germans managed a 2 to 1 casualty victory. Or I'm sure that's what your "sources" will try to convince us.
paidleaf 8y ago
That's for the overall invasion that spanned more than a month ( AKA germans defending half of france ). I'm talking about D-Day ( 1 day ) incident where hardly any fighting took place. It was impossible for 50K german soldiers to defend the beaches because germany had no air force and no navy to protect them. The allied navy and air force pretty much cleared out the beaches and the germans had moved most of their forces to the east. Only a skeletal force of a few thousand were left to defend the beaches.