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It was essential to open a second front against Germany. The battered USSR had been fighting the bulk of the German forces since Barbarossa and the African and Italian campaigns had failed to draw off adequate German reserves from the Eastern Front.

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It got the Allies a toehold in France that they could use to continue the invasion without having to land soldiers again

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Operation Overlord was sort of the beginning of the end of World War II, with the Invasion of Normandy, France.

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