D-day

[Seven]

Has any historian/military analyst actually considered what would have become of the Italian campaign if the Normandy landings had been repulsed? Would the Allies have simply landed more men and materiel in Italian ports instead? I never thought of this for a second, we're so conditioned to believe that the Normandy landings were the big critical moment when in reality, they had all happened a year before, it would seem.

Probably not, the reason they did not continue their offensive in Italy in the first place and thereby attack Germany in its "underbelly" is because northern Italy and Austria to the north is extremely mountainous and therefore difficult (if not impossible) to take. I would say they probably would have tried in France/Belgium/Holland again.