To: SAMWolf
LOL!
I like this one from BG Norm Cota on Omaha Beach: "I don't have to tell you the story. You all know it. Only two kinds of people are gonna stay on this beach: those that are already dead and those that are gonna die! Now get off your butts! You guys are the Fighting 29th!"
From what I've read, the movie version is pretty close to the truth, with Cota personally organizing and pushing those guys off the beach.
66 posted on
11/18/2003 1:27:51 PM PST by
colorado tanker
("There are but two parties now, Traitors and Patriots")
To: colorado tanker
The only lame part to that is the scene where they blow up the roadblock and the entire Division runs through the hole. Omaha was taken by guys in one and twos working their way up ravines and draws and taking out pillboxes and MG nests. SPR was closer to how the guys got off Omaha Beach.
"Your mission is strategic. Don't give the enemy a break. Send em to hell"
68 posted on
11/18/2003 1:58:31 PM PST by
SAMWolf
(Hey, who spilled coffee on my Tagline?)
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