Letter: Was D-Day the decisive battle?

With all due respect to the tremendous courage and sacrifice of D-Day veterans ["D-Day," News, June 7], many students of World War II question whether "That battle [at Normandy] saved our way of life."

More probably it was the growing Russian onslaught from the east, steadily blasting through German defenses, that assured the Allied victory. In fact, three out of every four German troops killed in the war died on the Eastern Front.

It remains a point of contention among some historians whether the Allies could have won the war even without the D-Day sacrifice.

Jay Roberts, Jericho