Kids fighting and dying over grown man politics. A shame.
Kids fighting and dying over grown man politics. A shame.
I thought it was (in part) b/c the American bombers came over Omaha Beach at a right angle to it whereas they came over the other beaches parallel. The Omaha bombs fell way back. I think.
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There was also a big difference in quality between their respective garrisons. Utah was defended by occupation troops who were poorly equipped. Many of them were actually Eastern Europeans. Omaha, OTOH, was defended by a relatively well trained outfit that was supposed to be transferred to the Eastern Front.
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Peter1469 (06-06-2019),stjames1_53 (06-06-2019)
I don't think so because a right angle attack would not saturate the length of the beach. My post above was based on a documentary with first-hand accounts seen on a NatGeo TV D-Day marathon show. The doc went on to say that the Utah aircrew's commander back in England said that the sortie was a no-abort order in case of bad weather and visibility hence they flew beneath the clouds. Good leadership by the lead captain. The Omaha sortie lead-ship commander took the easy, safe and ineffective way out.
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Another interesting fact is that US forces found out that killing a group's officer disabled a leaderless group from effecting a useful offence or defense. The enlisted Germans were unable to be effective without orders being given to them. I wonder if German units had non-coms in their hierarchy to take the place of officers that were killed. I would rather follow a salty sergeant instead of a book-trained military academy lieutenant.
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Art thou every retard among us related to thine uncle or mistress by way of moral or illegitimate rendezvous? Thus, we are one side of the other's coin by luck or pluck. - Jimmyz
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
According to this we're both wrong: https://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-US...at-Omaha-Beach
Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect. -- Woody Hayes
MisterVeritis (06-06-2019)
" I'm old-fashioned. I like two sexes! And another thing, all of a sudden I don't like being married to what is known as a 'new woman'. I want a wife, not a competitor. Competitor! Competitor!" - Spencer Tracy in 'Adam's Rib' (1949)
Art thou every retard among us related to thine uncle or mistress by way of moral or illegitimate rendezvous? Thus, we are one side of the other's coin by luck or pluck. - Jimmyz
Tahuyaman (06-06-2019)