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Originally Posted by Doppleganger The largest invasion in history was the German invasion of the Soviet Union. To put it into some kind of context with the D-Day landings Operation Barbarossa numerically speaking was over ten times as massive.
Approximately 330,000 Allied troops stormed the Normandy beaches on June 6th, 1944..
Approximately 3,700,000 German and Axis soldiers marched into the Soviet Union on June 22nd, 1941. There were 4,300,000 Soviet soldiers there to greet them.
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Your numbers for the Soviet Union are off. The forces in the Western Military Districts numbered some 2.9 million men of whom around 1 million were stationed along or close to the border.