There is an increasingly popular idea among military historians is that there was a real chance to end the war in Europe in the fall of 1944. Certainly Gen. George S. Patton thought so.
If Patton had been given the means to achieve an “American blitzkrieg” then the war against Germany could have ended sooner then it did in OTL.
However with Germany defeated Patton would have turned his eyes to not Japan but the Soviet Union.
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