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One argument for postponing the invasion of France all the way to 1944 and doing other operations against the European Axis in the meantime was that American troops were inexperienced and needed to gain experience in a peripheral theater against a smaller fraction of Axis troops.

But I'd heard somewhere that some of the units in D-Day or the march from Normandy to the Rhine were green and without combat experience.

On the other hand, a source of completely unknown value, the movie "The Big Red One" had Mark Hamill and his unit fight successively in North Africa, then Sicily, then Italy then France.

But this is all anecdotal

Are there any decent statistics on whether Allied forces in Overlord had fought in North Africa, Sicily and Italy first?

I use forces, generally, and stats would be interesting however you slice it, whether one measures:

a) the median # of days combat experience of the soldiers involved in D-Day
b) the median # of days of combat experience of their officers
c) the median # of days of combat experience of their unit as a whole
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