[Libloather]

And not one cell phone. Imagine that.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

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

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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.

[Fiji Hill]

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.

[Jim Noble]

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.

[AlaskaErik]

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

[metmom]

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.

[Captain Peter Blood]

And meanwhile on the Eastern Front!

[SimpleJack]

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

[ggrrrrr23456]

... 17 million maps ... This number seems implausible. Did woke Yahoo assign six interns to research this?

[fella]

Not counting the loses incurred while crossing the Atlantic.

[Pappy Smear]

Didn't the Allies have naval superiority in the channel? Couldn't we have just parked some battleships a few miles out, and just shell the crap out of the first couple miles in? And do it for a couple days?

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.

[algore]

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/06/06/a_woke_d-day_145861.html

If media today were covering D-day

[Cobra64]

Today, we observe democrats encouraging a non-stop invasion across our Southern border.

[archy]

23,250 US troops fought their way ashore at Utah Beach

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.