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How would things have changed in Normandy if the Panzer divisions could have moved there in, say, half the time it originally took them and, they arrived complete not piecemeal?
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The best option is always to entirely annihilate your enemy, not just repelling his attack and Von Rundstedt's plan stipulated exactly this, but as Rommel realised; it could not be done at the time with their available resources and strategical condition.
Then, even with more resources destined to more powerful and non-continous coast defenses as you say, T. A. they would have still needed an immediate Panzer counter attack, which would have been a
complete failure.
Allied air power and naval guns would have simply annihilated any German attempt of a breakthrough. It happened many times to the Red Army in Courland and Eastern Prussia, and the attack capabilities of the Red Army in 1944 were immensely superior to German ones and the German Navy in 1944 in the Baltic had a couple of cruisers, nothing compared to 9 battleships, a dozen cruisers and dozens of destroyers.
It would have been quite impressive to see those 60-ton Tiger tanks being blown up ten metres from the ground by 16-inches guns...
