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To: Huck
I saw the PBS "D-Day " special last night,
The first wave of Americans knew they were the suicide attack platoon
and suffered 91% casualties during the invasion, mostly due to German 'crossing fields of fire' of machine guns and heavy artillery.
A truly remarkable story of survival which had but only one command :" Get Off The Beaches" !
5 posted on 06/06/2016 12:43:39 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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7 posted on 06/06/2016 12:51:06 PM PDT by Huck (Never give up.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

FWIW, my father landed on Omaha Beach that day in the US Army.

This past winter I read Churchill’s six-volume history of WW2, and it left such a deep mark on my heart that I find it very hard to take Limbaugh chest-beating with no mention at all of the British, who were equal partners in the planning and execution of the invasion of Normandy, and who stood alone against the Axis powers for 3 years.

Churchill never would have committed such a slight, and would have found it intolerable I am sure.


8 posted on 06/06/2016 12:58:52 PM PDT by Huck (Never give up.)
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