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Fett_72 · 01-16-2002, 05:28 AM

Good posts, the D-Day invasions I find super interesting.

I'm reading a book called 'Decision in Normandy' about the entire Normandy campaign right now, and when it got to the actual D-Day invasions (my favourite part so far), I was pretty surprised, since SPR was really my only reference when I started. Like someone said before, it took 6 hours to get a few yards up the beach. Omaha was the worst for the Americans because by a coincidence an entire German division was running training exercises on that particular beach, which the Allies were not aware of. Beaches like Gold and Sword were realtively lightly defended and were FAR less bloody than Omaha or Juno (be damned if I can remember the last one, damn...). Anyway, it was D+1 when they finally started to capture all of Omaha, that's a day of fighting. Must've been hell...

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Fett_72 is Offline Member Posts: 67 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: CANADA	01-16-2002, 05:28 AM Good posts, the D-Day invasions I find super interesting. I'm reading a book called 'Decision in Normandy' about the entire Normandy campaign right now, and when it got to the actual D-Day invasions (my favourite part so far), I was pretty surprised, since SPR was really my only reference when I started. Like someone said before, it took 6 hours to get a few yards up the beach. Omaha was the worst for the Americans because by a coincidence an entire German division was running training exercises on that particular beach, which the Allies were not aware of. Beaches like Gold and Sword were realtively lightly defended and were FAR less bloody than Omaha or Juno (be damned if I can remember the last one, damn...). Anyway, it was D+1 when they finally started to capture all of Omaha, that's a day of fighting. Must've been hell...