re: #425 Max D. Reinhardt

A good point I want to make: if we judged D-Day by today’s standards it might be considered a disastrous victory, like the second Battle of Fallujah.

The hundreds dead in training exercises and the bad intel about German trenches and barbed wire on the beach led to hundreds (if not thousands) of dead Allied soldiers.

Very true. But back then the disparity of ability between America and our enemies was much smaller. The best Germany infantry units were equal (if not actually better) man-for-man than their American counterparts,though the crushing firepower superiority of the US (especially in artillery) gave us the edge.