re: A seriously underrated aspect of D-Day and the Allied offensive in France

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To a man they said they knew the war was as good as lost by the end of the day. The general sentiment was that there was no way to defeat an army that was so well equipped and in such abundance. What most people don't realize was that all during the war a large portion of the German army was still "horse drawn". They didn't have vehicles for everything like we did.

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The Germans had panzers and U boats but otherwise were very far behind technologically. Usually the panzers had to stop and wait 2 days for those on horseback and on foot to catch up when invading a country.

Germany lacked the necessary ports, raw materials, and oil to ramp up a war machine from the onset. Their entire plan hinges on Blitzkrieg warfare which meant taking over weak nations quickly and decisively and using their resources to keep their war machine going and hopefully become technologically superior before Russia, Britain, and the US had time to overwhelm them.

Had Japan not attacked the US when they did, Germany likely would have succeeded because they had Britain on the ropes and would then have focused all manpower on the USSR. But alas they brought us into it, and the US had a huge population with every resource known to man and infrastructure not afftected by the war. Within months we had a war machine superior to Germany in every way and the rest was history