It's amazing to think about what those guys went through,
- No tank support
(Poor bastards in tanks)
- Low Tide
(much more land to cover)
- Pre-sighted Mortars and MG nests with double and sometimes triple crossfire zones
- Tripod mounted MG42's
(One of the best machine guns ever built 2,000 round per minute)
- German Artillery that was not hit from bombing
- A harden German position with a combat harden German unit instead of conscripts
(can you even believe what D-Day would look like if Utah/Juno/Sword/Gold would have been just as bad as Omaha?! Would have been talking 20-50K dead in one day)
Thank god at least at Omaha some Naval Captains literally BEACHED their destroyers to direct fire on the pillboxes.
I've read alot of great books about D-Day but my favorite will always be...
