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D-Day by the numbers: Here's what it took 76 years ago to pull off the biggest amphibious invasion in history
Business Insider via Yahoo ^ | 6/06/21 | Ryan Pickrell

Posted on 06/06/2021 5:27:37 PM PDT by Libloather

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And not one cell phone. Imagine that.
1 posted on 06/06/2021 5:27:38 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

“””D-Day by the numbers: Here’s what it took 76 years ago to pull off the biggest amphibious invasion in history”””


Obviously the author of this story is a graduate of an institute of higher learning with an advanced degree in ‘new’ mathematics. I believe it was 77 years ago.


2 posted on 06/06/2021 5:49:16 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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The scale of the assault was unlike anything the world had seen before or will most likely ever see again.

The invasion of Sicily in 1943 was also substantial, in that it involved about 150,000 troops, 3,000 ships and more than 4,000 aircraft.

3 posted on 06/06/2021 5:49:51 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Beat me by two minutes...


4 posted on 06/06/2021 5:51:22 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (NUKE MECCA. ABOLISH THE DEA, IRS, AND ATF)
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To: Fiji Hill

Okinawa deserves a look too. For instance the Battle of Okinawa involved more ground troops, landing on the beach-heads than Normandy.


5 posted on 06/06/2021 5:52:04 PM PDT by walkingdead (We are sacrificing American youth's future on the altar of our own fear. And it is a travesty.)
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To: Libloather
By that summer, the Allies had managed to slow the forward march of the powerful German war machine Soviet Union had basically won the war, and the end of Nazi Germany was inevitable.

Fixed it.

6 posted on 06/06/2021 5:52:18 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice)
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To: Libloather

Ummm...that was 77 years ago, not 76.


7 posted on 06/06/2021 5:57:41 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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With substantial US and British help.

Left on their own the Soviets would have lost to Germany. Presuming a battle only between Germany and Russia.

8 posted on 06/06/2021 6:04:32 PM PDT by ealgeone
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Dad told me about meeting the Russians.

“Here they come, driving Studebaker trucks.”


9 posted on 06/06/2021 6:18:41 PM PDT by OKSooner ("...but only after the fair trial, of course.")
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yep. iirc we gave them something like 250,000 trucks.


10 posted on 06/06/2021 6:19:17 PM PDT by ealgeone
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Sherman tanks too, believe it or not.


11 posted on 06/06/2021 6:22:58 PM PDT by OKSooner ("...but only after the fair trial, of course.")
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Yes! We gave them a whole bunch of stuff from tanks down to cans of spam.


12 posted on 06/06/2021 6:25:14 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Jim Noble

Had a buddy of mine who would always insist it was the Russkies who won the war, and who certainly paid the greater butcher’s bill when it came to the dead and wounded.

To which I’d always reply they damn well better have ended up with the sh*tty end of that stick, since it was the stinking Ribbentrop-Molotov pact that allowed the Nazis to gain the momentum to get the upper hand in Europe in the first place.


13 posted on 06/06/2021 6:29:28 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: Libloather

My uncle was part of that.

He said they were all terrified and not one of them expected to make it out alive.

He just passed about a year ago. Made it into his mid-ninties.


14 posted on 06/06/2021 6:30:14 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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“Left on their own the Soviets would have lost to Germany. Presuming a battle only between Germany and Russia.”

Very true. But some people seem to have an agenda, so reality is “flexible.”


15 posted on 06/06/2021 6:32:39 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Stosh

The Soviets were thrilled when Hitler was invading France and bombing Britain, they even gave Hitler a lot of material for his war machine during those years. Even in the 1941 May Day Parade, six weeks before the Operation Barbarossa started, Nazi and Soviet Generals were in Red Square saluting each other.


16 posted on 06/06/2021 6:46:16 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

True in my old math 2021 - 1944 = 77. The author must be using Democrat math where arithmetic is racist.


17 posted on 06/06/2021 7:19:27 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter
I think that yahoo has a “special program” for journalistic retards that write their stories from Wikipedia articles.
18 posted on 06/06/2021 7:23:16 PM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less)
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To: Libloather

And meanwhile on the Eastern Front!


19 posted on 06/06/2021 7:23:35 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;pag)
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Very True, The Eastern Front is the forgotten part of the war and brutality of it stuns the imagination.


20 posted on 06/06/2021 7:24:47 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;pag)
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