soc.history.war.world-war-ii

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1ee2588b-b183-4464-b1ae-d4f251d65d0b@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com, Louis C
at louisc00@yahoo.com wrote on 3/31/08 1:08 AM:

> What is clear is that with an extra month to strengthen their positions the
> Germans would have made the landing more difficult. Also, the clock would be
> ticking for the capture of sufficient port capacity before winter weather made
> over the beach resupply operations impossible.

Plus it means that there would be one less month of campaigning weather to
clear the Germans out of France (save the port "fortresses" that held out
anyway) before the lousy autumn weather closed in. It might mean that
Overlord and Bagration would open more nearly simultaneously, with what
effects on the war I will not at this time try to speculate.

> The good news is that there would be more LST's.

I wonder if that would also mean that Dragoon would go in as historically
scheduled, or would it necessarily be set back a month as well?

Michael