wtf? D-day? No indirect fire from allies?? it was one of the biggest indriect fire party ever.
all ships/arti/planes fire all the day on the beach. on the beach where was all destroyed...the was no great defence....but the allies lost hard on omaha beach...where german bunkers wasnt destroyed...
and ardenen ofensive? the problem was the air support from allies, to less gas, to less information (axis anti air weopans shot down about 250 german planes)
in ardenen assault the allies lost much more than german...and dont forget sovjet was at this time on assault too. 3 huges fronts at the same time.
once more: poland lost in 4 weaks, france in 8weaks....both had much bigger armys than germany.
germany assault the whole europe, except GB.
the destroyed huge armys from the sovjets in no time and get north africa...
and allies (a army of the half world) need 4years? really?
I never said that D-Day had no artillery. You need to learn to read, not just see words and extrapolate whatever the fuck you want out of it. I mentioned it because it's wildly inaccurate to say that the allies didn't "fight" as you put it, man to man in direct combat, and D-Day is a sterling example of that. Lost hard on Omaha beach? Sure, lots of casualties, but they took it. Amphibious assaults are one of the worst scenarios for an attacking army, you know.
The battle of the bulge (from my somewhat limited understanding of most of this particular battle) was ended by the allies' landslide air superiority (which was achieved by shooting down all the german planes earlier, doesn't that count as "fighting"?), but only lasted as long as it did because poor weather meant that the allies couldn't utilize their air forces to full effectiveness. Bastogne also had very intense fighting, and was completely surrounded for a time, meaning no more artillery shells, so the Germans actually used more indirect fire there than the allies.
You talk about how they fought on all these huge fronts and had to really stretch their armies thin, but that's only because of stupid leadership decisions. There's not one front in the whole war that was opened up because some other country attacked Germany. They didn't have to open so many fronts and anger so many countries. They had their nonaggression pact with Russia, and the U.S. was just sitting on their asses because we're dumb. The only country I can think of that even declared war on Germany without being directly attacked first was Britain.
France was indeed an achievement, a miracle really, only made possible by superior German tactics and short-sighted French decisions. Much bigger and more built up army crushed by a comparatively tiny army with inferior materiel for the most part.