D-Day and Gallipoli Strategy
During D-Day the allies had great success because of the strategies used. For one they made the Germans think the attack was on Pas de Calais, a point in between France and Britain. This was to get the Germans focused on that point rather than the beach of Normandy. Also to make this fake landing point even more real the allies even had fake equipment, transmissions, and a phantom army to throw off the Germans. They then stormed the beaches on June 6, 1944. The leading general for the German troops in Normandy was on leave this gave the allies a great advantage. Since the target was at the Siene river Hitler refused to move his troops as allies to Normandy which then lead to the overall victory of the allies. This whole battle caused not only physical blows to the Germans, but also psychological blow to the Germans.
Compared to D-Day, Gallipoli was a tremendous failure. Everything and anything went wrong. The allies trying to get the best strategic area possible attempted to obtain the Dardanelles Straits. In order to attempt this conquer of the straits the allies had two choices: a naval fleet, or a ground platoon. They knew if they attempted a naval attack they would fail, but they attempted it anyway. In February the 19th and the 25th the allies attempted many naval attacks to the straits. Both of which failed to even put the slightest dent in the Turkish walls. The allies then attempted to Force the Narrows on the 18th of March which was a great failure because of the hidden Turkish minefield. Since the naval attacks failed as they thought they attempted ground attacks which also failed miserably due to mismanaged. This also lead to heavy casualties. As the allies kept attempting ground attacks they kept failing. After realizing that they were not going to get Gallipoli they had already lost 252,000 allies were lost and 250,000 Turkish were lost due to these battles.
Lastly to compare D-Day to Gallipoli you can see which one was the success rather than the failure. In Gallipoli there was very little strategy put into play except for the fact they wanted the Dardanelles Strait for strategic purposes. They did not get the strait of course and lost many troops in the process. Now in D-Day everything was so precisely planned that they even had fake troops and equipment to throw off the Germans. This put D-Day into a great success rather that Gallipoli which was a great failure.