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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Naval bombardment on the German's would have been every bit as intense if not more, There were 5 American Battleships and 3 or four British Battleships shooting shells the size of phone booths down range.
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And yet those bunkers were still pretty much intact. Nazis LOVE their concrete.
I was watching a documentary on TV last night Naze Superstructures or something along that lines. Last night they were examining the "Atlantic Wall" which stretched from the top of Norway to the bottom of France.
The sheer amount of time and resources that went into the wall blows my mind. And only to have it breached within 7 hours or so is insace. Such a waste.
But man were the allies lucky. If it wasn't for the fact that someoen was afraid to wake up Hitler and inform him of the invasion and Rommel was off on holidays, that landing could have gone south in a real hurry.