Many Major Invasions Beyond D-Day
Hollywood fixates on the Normandy landings as if they were the only significant invasion. Operation Barbarossa saw 3 million German troops attack the Soviet Union in 1941. The Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943 involved massive forces and proved strategically vital. Pacific island campaigns required numerous amphibious assaults across vast distances. D-Day was important but represented just one of many massive operations during the war.
