In terms of men & weapons elminated Bagration was more important. The Normandy campaign had a greater result in terms of economic results. The Anglo/US Armys stripped France & Belgium from Germanys war industry and place Germanys transport system within range of their shorter range medium bombers. With bases in France it was possible in the autum & winter to wreck the German transportation network the same as the French railroads & highway bridges had been wrecked the previous winter & spring.

Bagration liberated a vast agricultural region, with some industrial cities, but these were not on the same scale as in northern France and Belgium. Neither did Bagration place Soviet armys or its airforces in effective range of German industrial regions like Silesia or Bohemia. At the end of the Normandy campaign in September the Anglo/US armys were a little over 100 kilometers from the Rhine river and Ruhr industrial region. This forced the Germans to rebuild a large army in the west, allowing the Red army to make its next advance westwards. Similarly the Germans no longer had any depth to its air defense in the west. The Allied fighter secourts and medium bombers could sortie from bases just a couple hundred kilometers from the Rhine river.