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Ghetto-P · 01-16-2002, 06:41 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by nwebb:
The other beach was called UTAH. BTW, what exactly are the Shingles? Is it the barbed wire or what? Thanks in advance.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I believe the shingle is the area on a beach where the most sand is piled up from the waves. Like in Saving Private Ryan where they set off the bangalore torpedoes, they were up along the shingle. That is why it was a lot safer to be up along the shingle during the D-Day invasions because you were safe from the machine gun fire.

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Ghetto-P is Offline Member Posts: 94 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lacombe, LA USA	01-16-2002, 06:41 AM <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by nwebb: The other beach was called UTAH. BTW, what exactly are the Shingles? Is it the barbed wire or what? Thanks in advance.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I believe the shingle is the area on a beach where the most sand is piled up from the waves. Like in Saving Private Ryan where they set off the bangalore torpedoes, they were up along the shingle. That is why it was a lot safer to be up along the shingle during the D-Day invasions because you were safe from the machine gun fire. ------------------ "Nuts!" General McAuliffe