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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Thanks Military history does come in handy, I went to a U.S. university and decided to take some elective history courses. We had a professor that waxed poetically about the D Day invasion and the greatness of the American effort (which I can't argue with), so I asked some probing questions about the Canadian hand in D-Day to which the professor said it was fairly minimal, of course no insult intended.
So I fired back with a "While the you yanks were still on the beach pooping your pants and trying to figure out how to push forward, the Canadian's on Juno beach had already pushed in land securing key bridge heads and road intersection and how to get the beer trucks out of the sand. Yes Mr Professor, the Canadians pushed further and faster then any on the allied units, but thanks for not understanding D-Day."
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Not to mention laying a serious beat-down (in conjunction with Brits on their flank) on the
only armoured counterattack attempted by the Germans, on D-Day proper.
Yeah...minor role my *ss.
True, the US took a beating on Omaha. At Utah they basically walked ashore and sat on their butts. This, while the airborne (inland) took care of the artillery that was making life tough for them,
and deflecting most of the German counter-offensive efforts in the sector.
Want to learn about D-Day and the Normandy Breakout?
Read "Normandy:1944" by Nicklas Zetterling (Schiffer Military History; 2000)...
It's from the German perspective, but it shows you
who did
what, and
why it went down the way it did.
Don't get me started...LOL
Ron