[poconopundit]

My dad was there on an LST ship. He told us kids, “If you’re weren’t scared, you weren’t there.” Good wishes to all the D-Day vets we remember today.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I read somewhere that they were told to expect north of 50% casualties -- I don't know if that's true, it seems odd that soldiers would be told such a thing going into an operation, but in any event they weren't stupid, they knew that "Fortress Europe" was bristling with defenses, they knew what happened at Dieppe...And even so, there was no mass insubordination, there was no desertion. They simply went.

To this day, there is no exact count of how many men died on D-Day. It was such a chaotic bloodbath that it was impossible to even attempt to make accurate records until days later, when more men had died and gone missing and been wounded in further combat actions.

[bigbob]

Amen.

[IronJack]

I echo your sentiments.