Oh yeah. The Navy ships came in close, in the shallow water to provide direct fire support.
They could hit that thing all day long. Besides, the supposedly amphibious tanks went straight to the bottom when they were launched, unfortunately with their crews, all lost.
Tanks didn’t make it to the beach on day one.
That’s true. My dad was in Flotilla 4, all his air-breathing bulldozers got ashore.
Yep, up to 1,000 yards. In Navy speak, that’s point blank.
According to the Netflix film on D-Day, 5 made it ashore. After that, ???.