D-DAY. Was the timing more important than the decision?

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Why would Britain and America want to launch D-Day any earlier than June 1944 when the two countries they hated most where destroying each other?
Hitler had less than 20% of his total forces protecting the Atlantic wall, so it was never going to be that difficult to kick in the door! The Allies knew this and many other things since they broke the German Enigma code.
Stalin had been asking for a second front since 1942, but there was not that much love for him across the Atlantic.
The Allies knew from there reconnisance photographs of the concentration camps, yet still no second front until the last minute in 1944 when it looked like Stalin might over-run all of Europe!
Why fight the Nazis' when the Russians are doing it for you?
Sometimes the timing of a decision is more important than the decision itself!
 
Yes the timing was very important, since there was bad weather on D-Day the enemy did not expect the Allies to launch their attack on that specific day. Also Hitler had not planned on Normandy being the spot attacked, he expected Pas de Calais to be attacked considering it was a shorter trip across the English channel. Timing was always good because General Rommel had taken leave for his wife's birthday, due to the poor weather conditions he also thought against the possibility of invasion.
 
You're right that timing is important, but you needn't look into devious motives. There simply wasn't the capability to invade the previous year, and another year would have left all of Europe under Soviet domination.
The problem with kicking in the door is that you have to get to the door, and there simply wasn't enough shipping to do the job earlier.
 
First front Russia.
Why does no one consider the Allied invasion of Sicily and Italy the second front, with Normandy the third front?

You said "so it was never going to be that difficult to kick in the door? The Allies knew this...
They didn't "know" this and it certainly was not "easy" to "kick in the door" It took thousands of lives and many months to break out of Normandy, and capture the V-1, V-2 launch sites, and finally cross the Rhine.
 
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