As their landing craft touched down on the shoreline at 6.30am, they stumbled forward into Hell.
Some 1,500 soldiers died in the bloody battle by the Americans to take Omaha Beach on D-Day - under fire from a well-disguised German gun emplacement.
The onslaught memorably featured in the memorable opening scenes of the film Saving Private Ryan. But military experts remain divided over exactly where the battery that laid down such a murderous bombardment was sited.
But now, a chance discovery by an amateur historian appears to have finally revealed the answer more than 63 years after the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
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(RG) I suppose it’s a good thing to get history correct especially if you were on the wining side, but to these men it didn’t really matter where the shells came from as they were lethal from anywhere. Sadly for those young men in WW2 the Allies could accept large casaualtiy figures unlike today where our Armies especially the British are much smaller. An Artillery round has no conscience and unfortunately some of ours killed civilians in the Falklands War.
© Mack (RG) The thoughts of a Falklands War Veteran.
Rogue_gunner_32_alpha@yahoo.co.uk
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Some 1,500 soldiers died in the bloody battle by the Americans to take Omaha Beach on D-Day - under fire from a well-disguised German gun emplacement.
The onslaught memorably featured in the memorable opening scenes of the film Saving Private Ryan. But military experts remain divided over exactly where the battery that laid down such a murderous bombardment was sited.
But now, a chance discovery by an amateur historian appears to have finally revealed the answer more than 63 years after the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
Read It Here
(RG) I suppose it’s a good thing to get history correct especially if you were on the wining side, but to these men it didn’t really matter where the shells came from as they were lethal from anywhere. Sadly for those young men in WW2 the Allies could accept large casaualtiy figures unlike today where our Armies especially the British are much smaller. An Artillery round has no conscience and unfortunately some of ours killed civilians in the Falklands War.
© Mack (RG) The thoughts of a Falklands War Veteran.
Rogue_gunner_32_alpha@yahoo.co.uk
Boycott BP
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