Posted on 07/21/2020 12:49:18 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
The younguns today who have nothing better to do than destroy anything they can reach.. and in exchange for a job.. pass out the freebies you are to pay for.
They need to face death getting off the boat.. and then spend the next year wading in cold mud, taking refuge in a fox hole, walking in wet boots that have holes.. seeing bodies of buddies.. not knowing what the next hour is like..facing death every day...
Then go and burn the flag.. take a knee...
The NCO's of Easy Company knew that when they mutinied against Captain Sobel. He was more or less competent in a training command, but would have gotten them killed in battle.
Omaha beach- The first wave got it hard. They dropped them off in waist deep water only to find out that the troops had to wade through the channels that were over their heads in some cases.
Other boats were zero’d in by the Germans with their MG42s and one burst, the whole group was gone. Those troops were fed a huge breakfast before they disembarked. The result was that most were sick. Besides that, they were WAAAYYYY over loaded. All they needed was ammo, water, and a few articles of food. Instead they had them put on some 60 plus pounds of equipment. A lot of them drowned, and couldnt run when they did get onshore. How the hell do you move after wading in water with all that weight on? I bet those packs weighed over 100 pounds after they managed to get onshore.
The bombing along the beaches did nearly nothing.
But, at Utah beach, things went rather well. TR Jr said, after they figured out they landed a little off from the zone..”Might as well start this right here.”
Some successes didn't survive first contact with the real enemy, the Press.
Yet another example of hack writing. The US alone had 39 divisions in combat by Christmas Day - not a total of 39 divisions for the overall Allied effort for the entire campaign.
Too bad nobody writing for publication on the internet has any idea what an editor is.
Plus, Overlord was strictly a planning operation. Not one unit, nor one landing location, nor date is mentioned in the Overlord planning documents. Neptune was the operational plan.
How successful? For a few decades, very successful.
Unfortunately the success ended.
Today’s Europe is covered in spreading cancer-sores of Islam-dominated no-go zones, where empty churches burn, women walk in fear, and Jews pack their bags
Actually, Berlin fell to the Russians.
snowflakes would be crying in their safe spaces.
We shipped them a thousands of trucks, jeeps, etc.
By midnight on 6 June, 132,000 Allied forces had landed in France, while more than 2 million were eventually shipped there in total, comprising a total of 39 divisions.
The D-Day figure often includes 18,000 paratroopers who jumped in behind German lines before the troops landed on the beach. Rommel's plan for the "wall" differed a bit at Omaha beach -- I've read that when he saw the terrain, it reminded him of the landing spots the Allies had used in Sicily and Italy, and he beefed it up there.
It wasn't that long ago that the American press was patriotic and actually practiced journalism.
Has that ever changed. Was it Mike Wallace who said even if he knew about it he would not warn American troops of an impending ambush?
My father was an older GI and he went ashore at Normandy.. not the first load.. when he got off the boat and ashore, dead Americans littered the sand..they ran...were told to pick up weapons only.. could not stop to help anyone. . He spent the next year walking in cold mud. across France.. living in foxholes.. and surviving bullets..no baths.. no clean clothes.. no dry clothes ..just survival.
Research Starters: US Military by the Numbers | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
US Military Personnel (1939-1945)
Year Army Navy Marines Coast Guard Total 1939 189,839 125,202 19,432 334,473 1940 269,023 160,997 28,345 458,365 1941 1,462,315 284,427 54,359 1,801,101 1942 3,075,608 640,570 142,613 56,716* 3,915,507 1943 6,994,472 1,741,750 308,523 151,167 9,195,912 1944 7,994,750 2,981,365 475,604 171,749 11,623,468 1945 8,267,958 3,380,817 474,680 85,783 12,209,238 *Coast Guard listed only as wartime strength
Profile of US Servicemen (1941-1945)
- 38.8% (6,332,000) of U.S. servicemen and all servicewomen were volunteers
- 61.2% (11,535,000) were draftees
- Average duration of service: 33 months
- Overseas service: 73% served overseas, with an average of 16 months abroad
- Combat survivability (out of 1,000): 8.6 were killed in action, 3 died from other causes, and 17.7 received non-fatal combat wounds
- Non-combat jobs: 38.8% of enlisted personnel had rear echelon assignments—administrative, support, or manual labor.
- Average base pay: enlisted—$71.33 per month; officer—$203.50 per month
US Military Casualties in World War II
Branch Killed Wounded Army and Air Force 318,274 565,861 Navy 62,614 37,778 Marines 24,511 68,207 Coast Guard 1,917 Unknown TOTAL 407,316 671,278
Merchant Marine Casualties
Died as POWs 37 Dead 5,662 Missing/Presumed Dead 4,780 Killed at Sea 845
The only good embedding involves close range with a sidearm.
Yes. We let them. We got to the river Elbe and the Russians took over from there; in any case, we got there in 11 months.
You are correct. I believe the decision was Ike’s to allow the Russians to capture Berlin as we turned North East and South East to mop up and occupy although I have read that the decision was made at Yalta Conference.
I had an uncle who was in one of the first US companies into Berlin. He liked the German people much better than the Russian soldiers. He didn’t like being there at all.
Much of Easy Company’s members credited Captain Sobel with their becoming so tough & determined to win.
God bless your father & his brothers in arms. My Dad was in the South Pacific. Everything was totally different there. And not in a good way.
It wasn't that long ago that the American press was patriotic and actually practiced journalism.Respectfully disagree.
The main reason for the positive reporting was because Hitler attacked Uncle Joe.
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