Posted on 06/06/2021 5:27:37 PM PDT by Libloather
I am not sure about that. Germany was beaten by brute force and the weather.
D-Day Landing Sites Then and Now: Normandy Beaches in 1944 and 70 Years Later
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/d-day-landing-sites-then-now-normandy-beaches-1944-70-years-later-1450286
Not counting the loses incurred while crossing the Atlantic.
And I'm sure there is some reason we didn't, some rando guy on the internet in 2021 just didn't think that up. But I've never heard a reason why.
Naval bombardments alone never worked on small islands in the Pacific. D-Day’s five invasion beaches comprised a lot of geography. The Allies did not want to telegraph the landing sites.
We gave (lent/leased) them more motor vehicles than were on the roads in the entire U.K. at the time.
Regards,
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/06/06/a_woke_d-day_145861.html
If media today were covering D-day
Nah. The communists in the FDR administration turned against Hitler when he invaded Russia. They were all for Hitler up to then. I’ve heard it called the war to save Joe Stalin. I wonder about that.
Hard to disagree with that if you are a student of history. Still DDay was an amazing and historic operation and success. Germany and the SU might’ve reached a truce had we not been successful.
Today, we observe democrats encouraging a non-stop invasion across our Southern border.
“True in my old math 2021 - 1944 = 77. The author must be using Democrat math where arithmetic is racist.”
The 6 is right next to the 7... probably fat fingered the 7.
And edit feature would help with those pesky fat fingerings.
Lets see...
(Roughly) 28,000,000 men, women, and children killed in the CCCP during WWII, presumably excluding purges, roundups and other crimes against the citizenry by the soviet.
450,000 US KIA
With the German government reporting that its records list 4.3 million dead and missing military personnel. Another 1 million were conscripts from other countries.
28 million military, including the civilian numbers suggest that the entire soviet union military and civilian populations were engaged in the fight and in the support of countering German advances.
Catastrophically stunning.
The entire article reads like a crappy statistical summary. Probably just re-dated from last year & republished without that line being edited.
It’s been a long time since Mr. Herzog’s AP World History class in 11th grade, but IIRC it was something like one rifle for every four fighters on the Eastern Front.
As soon as a guy with a rifle fell during a charge, one of the others would drop their pitch fork and pick up the rifle. Of course the officers in the rear had guns in case anybody with a farm implement decided not to join the charge.
Hence his opening paragraph which is accurate:
The scale of the Allied invasion that began 77 years ago, on June 6, 1944, was unlike anything the world had seen before or will most likely ever see again. "
“””I think that yahoo has a “special program” for journalistic retards that write their stories from Wikipedia articles.”””
Great comment. I will keep it in mind when I read other stories.
I certainly like to read WW II, but I have been remiss in reading about the Eastern Font war and I intend to read more. I think author Max Hastings has some books on the subject.
MUCH different from the fiasco at Omaha. The amphibious tanks made it ashore, the landing craft with the 70th Armor's dozer tanks landed first, the naval vessels providing direct fire gun support came in so close to the beachhead they nearly grounded, and the whole shebang took place where the Germans didn't expect it by virtue of one of the initial landing craft's lucky navigational error.
And Commander Norman Cota, directing the 29th and First Infantry Divisions, will always be remembered for one other thing:
In a meeting with Max Schneider, commander of the 5th Ranger Battalion, Cota asked "What outfit is this?" Someone yelled, "5th Rangers!" In an effort to inspire Schneider's men to leave the cover of the seawall and advance through a breach, Cota replied, "Well, God damn it, if you are Rangers, then get up there and lead the way!"
"Rangers lead the way" became the motto of the U.S. Army Rangers.
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