[wtc911]

A little reality check, more Americans died on 911 than at Normandy...

From the Brits' D-Day Museum site:

"The breakdown of US casualties was 1465 dead, 3184 wounded, 1928 missing and 26 captured. Of the total US figure, 2499 casualties were from the US airborne troops (238 of them being deaths). The casualties at Utah Beach were relatively light: 197, including 60 missing. However, the US 1st and 29th Divisions together suffered around 2000 casualties at Omaha Beach."

There was a total of @ 2000 casualties on Omaha. This includes wounded. This guy would have had to be responsible for every single US KIA (ignoring drownings, artillery/mortars, every other German soldier and friendly fire) and even that number wouldn't come close to what is claimed in this article.

[MARTIAL MONK]

Enough of this story is B.S. that it raises suspicions about the rest. Omaha is huge, five miles I think. The landings were concentrated with the highest casualties in the 16th and 116th but no one position was so strategicly placed that they could have done this much damage. The whole story is too movieish to be believed.

If I was to bet, I would bet that this bozo ran and made up the story. It does tell you something about mass psychology that so many people believe the story.

[chuckles]

I could be mistaken, but I believe more people died in the “practice” run for D Day than on the actual attack. The practice run was a complete debacle and thousands drowned or died somehow before D Day. I believe the landing craft were swamped or sunk in some way before they hit the beach. It was kept secret for decades. The controversy was brought to light when some of the dead weren’t given their “due” because they died in non combat, or some such. The military wasn’t too keen on talking about it for years.

Today, if we lose one soldier, they want investigations and somebody's head on a platter. In all previous wars, thousands were thrown at the enemy with no thought it may have been done better. We wasted more people on a Korean hill than in a year in Iraq. Douglas MacArthur was a hero, and Peter Pace can't even get a hearing.