Posted on 03/12/2017 11:45:09 AM PDT by DFG
See the Naval Study. I read the summary not the entire study. Try Google.
Are you referring to the study that stated the navy guns knocked out all the big guns on the island in the initial battery?
It was Tarawa if I remember correctly. In general if the pre-invasion bombardment worked so well why were there so many casualties. The Navy concluded pre-invasion bombardment had little effect. Check it out for yourself.
“In general if the pre-invasion bombardment worked so well why were there so many casualties.”
Tarawa was our first amphibious assault against a well-fortified island. Many lessons were learned.
Perhaps you should take ten minutes to read more than a ‘summary’ of the assault.
I knew men that were there and wounded. They are dead now.
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