Topic: Overlord: Would it have been successful without an Eastern Front?

Doppleganger · July 13th, 2008

The short answer is no and the Western Allies would never have attempted an invasion without there being a significant Eastern Front in place. The Germans, with their best units to hand and a far more significant Luftwaffe presence, would have thrown us back into the sea.

BTW most of the SS Divisions were not elite and the ones that fought with such determination in Normandy were mainly substandard in terms of equipment and especially training. The premier SS units though, those that comprised the II SS Panzer Korps for example, were as fine a formation as anything else in the German Army. If there were no Eastern Front, those would be waiting for us, along with excellent German field commanders such as Guderian, Hoth, Kluge, Manstein et al who spent most of their time on the Eastern Front.

July 13th, 2008
Doppleganger Tribuni Angusticlavii	The short answer is no and the Western Allies would never have attempted an invasion without there being a significant Eastern Front in place. The Germans, with their best units to hand and a far more significant Luftwaffe presence, would have thrown us back into the sea. BTW most of the SS Divisions were not elite and the ones that fought with such determination in Normandy were mainly substandard in terms of equipment and especially training. The premier SS units though, those that comprised the II SS Panzer Korps for example, were as fine a formation as anything else in the German Army. If there were no Eastern Front, those would be waiting for us, along with excellent German field commanders such as Guderian, Hoth, Kluge, Manstein et al who spent most of their time on the Eastern Front. __________________ "An Emperor is subject to no-one but God and justice." Frederick 1, Barbarossa Last edited by Doppleganger; July 14th, 2008 at 08:38.