[Citizen Tom Paine]

With respect to the most formidable assault in modern times

D Day 6 June 1944

12,000 planes

5,000 ships

130.000 troops the first wave

That was some show IMHO

[Burr5]

Gotta love the veterans of Normandy... and Okinawa too... those were more formidable challenges, I think, than Iraq.

But I'm sure the lethality and sheer firepower about to be unleashed makes this the "most effective" invasion force ever, if nothing else.

Sorry Hitler, Napoleon, Mao, Caesar, Alexander, Sherman, Eisenhower, et. al.... This seems to be about the nature of the whoop-ass in the cans, not how many cans there are.

[cmotormac44]

Indeed it was and I am proud to have been a part of it---'US Coast Guard Rescue Flotilla 1'---'Semper Paratus'