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Originally Posted by rogueteens
There was a great documentary on it last night, the Americans got the hardest part to attack but they really made it hard for themselves by fucking up badly. Failing to bomb the beaches properly, sending the floating tanks out too early and losing almost all of them in the rough seas, massing up on the beaches with little to no cover rather than heading straight inland, etc. ..
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don't forget, the guns at point du hoc had been moved merely days/hours prior to june 6th. aerial recon had them at the spot we nailed.
bradley's blunder, well, ..
massing on the beach? i don't recall that, you could be right, for me, the problem has always been the soldiers backpacks- 150 fucking pounds, the troop carriers got stuck on sandbars and troops had to slowly wade in with soaking wet packs, slow going = easy picking.
there was also the fuckup with the paratroopers but no other real blunders.
who knows, maybe current historians will revise this too. it wouldn't surprise me.