Some Significance

D-day probably would have dragged on a few more years or even yet the possibility of the Americans dopping an atomic bomb on the european front. Thats why the Americans dropped the bomb on the Japanese- it wasn't worth invading the island because they figured they would loose 100,000 men in trying to take it over so to save time they dropped the bomb. Perhaps if the war was dragging on long enough with the Italian front they would have dropped the bomb on the Europeans aswell. The invasion seemed to have sped up the war, (WW2) the Germans had two main fronts to supply and defend which was hard on resources etc. America had airbournes dropped in behind the enemy lines hours before the invasion to ensure certain artillery batterys couldn't fire on the ships. The Germans also had railway artillery set.

American Paratroopers