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What if Operation Shingle had enough landing craft made available to land double the divisions of OTL, enough to secure the bridgehead and attack out of it ASAP, which enables them to cut off the German 10th army? Let's say this delays D-Day into July due to the need to keep naval vessels in the Mediterranean longer, but prevents the Germans from withdrawing from the trap and as a result opens up the Italian Front. Does this end WW2 by the end of the year? Supposedly some of the German commanders were convinced the Allies could have cracked open the front and it would have been fatal for the German war effort and ended the war months early. Were they right and if so would it have meant something different for the post-war with an end by December 1944?
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