America's Greatest Victory of WW2 ?
America's Greatest Victory of WW2 ? 17 votes
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Battle of Midway - 1942
Crippled the Japanese Navy.
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Battle of Normandy - 1944
I'm a big D-Day supporter.
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Battle of the Bulge - 1944-45
really think you could break this down onto the 2 separate war theaters.
The Bulge was by far the biggest turning point in the European theater. D-Day was an enormous undertaking, but the allies still had to endure the brunt of the German forces for a solid 8 months in the worst conditions possible. Plus I understand just how hard the Battle of the Bulge can be, every day walking into Ms. Hawthorne’s 8th grade English class.
Midway was pure luck… How does Frank Poncherello find a flattop in some 200 square nautical miles of open ocean and then sink it? -
Battle of Midway - 1942
My grandpa landed on Utah Beach 80 years ago this coming June 6th.
As our pod @BearsWiin used to way, Normandy was nothing special. There's no question Normandy was a huge logistical feat, but Germany's fate was already pretty much sealed by June of '44. Maybe if we fail at the landings if delays the end somewhat and the Ruskies advance further (or maybe not because Normandy too pressure off the Eastern Front).
Midway on the other hand was the greatest 15 min knock out punch in the history of warfare. Japan was very much in the fight the morning of the battle and by day's end they took a blow from which they did not have the industrial capacity from which to recover.
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Battle of Midway - 1942
Better to be lucky than good. But we did do the work of breaking their code.
I don't see the Battle of the Bulge (both my grandfathers were there) as huge turning point, per se. Germany was already done. Rather, it seemed more like a big failure on our part to get across the Rhine in the Fall of 1944. I've ready some historians who think that the Morgenthau plan getting leaked cause the Krauts to put up more of fight in the West than would have happened otherwise. We should have told them we just want the Nazis out but we'll let @PurpleJ buy all the Bimmers!
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Battle of Midway - 1942
And perhaps if D-Day fails and defeat of Germany is delayed 6 or 12 month, maybe they get to experience nuclear fission before the Japanese. I'm pretty sure this was on the table.
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Battle of Normandy - 1944
I think Saving Private Ryan nails it. Maybe the first movie that hit me so hard I felt like less of a man
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Battle of Midway - 1942
I cried like a baby in the beginning in the theater.
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Battle of Midway - 1942
Japan was arguably a bigger threat to America
Germany was the threat to Europe and invading Russia sealed their fate
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Battle of Normandy - 1944
There’s a few movies that capture harrowing and terrifying real events. This was one of them. I think I’ll start a thread about it…