This seems like an ineffective way to take a beach

This seems like an ineffective way to take a beach.

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Maybe, but if you keep sending enough people, you'll enventually get up there.

Still worked, didn't it?

The planning and decisions that went into D-Day are of the most well documented of any WW2 battle. If you really cared, you would research it but instead you are meming on a Nepalese basket weaving forum.

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Basically like PETA shutting down a slaughterhouse by sending in so many sheep at once that the machinery eventually gets jammed with dead carcasses.

There was very little direct suppressing fire on most of the D-day beaches due to extensive naval gunnery.

But American movies naturally like to glorify the American fighting man, whose individual fighting capabilities were considered quite low by the Germans, the Japanese and even the Allied powers.

maybe for little euro babies it is

how else do you take a fucking beach

If the soldiers that fought in Normandy knew what would become of Europe, they wouldn't have taken more than five steps on that beach.

Boom.

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Muslims seem like an ineffective way to be a human.

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More dead white men, just as it was intended.

Wasnt really like that. Airpower and navy had softened most of the defences. The British forces landed virtually unopposed.

> the American fighting man, whose individual fighting capabilities were considered quite low by the Germans, the Japanese and even the Allied powers

You mean the losers. check.

It actually was far better than it could have been. It took the allies 20 days to reach 20,000 deaths. However, the British alone suffered that many in just the first hours of the Somme.

No shielding on those landing craft whatsoever. It's like they wanted everyone to be brutally slaughtered.

There were supposed to be tanks.

And of course, the US bombed the wrong people: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Normandy

America should have been nuked.

Germany didn't know about it, so they'd have as many guys there as they would any other beach. Obviously a D-day entry would not have worked had Germany spared proportionate manpower to the invasion.

>The bombings also destroyed 96% of Tilly-la-Campagne (Calvados), 95% of Vire (Calvados), 88% of Villers-Bocage (Calvados), 82% of Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), 77% of Saint-Lô (Manche), 76% of Falaise (Calvados), 75% of Lisieux (Calvados), 75% of Caen (Calvados)
>For many families who lived through the war, it was the arrival and passage of British and American forces that was by far the most tormenting experience
Great job allies.

The British/Canadian boats also had a mounted turret for cover fire.

They dramatically underestimated the strength of the fortifications. They genuinely believed that the large majority of the pillboxes/fire pits would be knocked out by the bombing and strafing that preceded the beach landing.

Normandy was a massive fuck up but the reality of the fuck up never really entered the mainstream consciousness because there was a media blackout during the war and the history books were effectively written by military propagandists.

I don't know if this is bait because it sort of is a legitimate question
The truth is, when you watch the scenes you tend to question yourself if that's the best way to do it. The answer is: yes, once you know all the nearly 1 year long secondary missions behind the landing: they had german reinforcements and best prepared units to go very far in France, they had paratroopers securing bridges and sensitive objectives behind the landings, they made sure other fronts had major attacks... no plan ever goes as thoughts in its preparation phase and the D-Day was really the best they could do

D-Day was actually "Plan B".

"Plan A", as far as i remember, was called "soft belly"--- the invasion was supposed to be in the balkans somewhere (probably Greece), the Allied armies were supposed to advance north, and meet with the Soviets somewhere in Ukraine/Poland, and advance together towards Germany.

Historians argue why the top brass didnt accept Plan A.

I think its pretty obvious, D-Day cut europe neatly in half, while going together with the Soviets would probably mean no change of borders after the war.

The Allied wanted to change the borders.

nice to see /pol is still totally retarded about actual historical facts.

>Airpower and navy had softened most of the defences.

airforce didnt soften jack shit.
the weather before d-day was foul, the fog was so big the bombers dropped their payload a mile behind the designated fucking target.

also, only 1 (ONE) beach suffered actual serious losses, because as it turned out, the beach wasnt filled with bunkers like it was shown in Saving Private Ryan, it was more like a long line of sandbags with germans with MG42 behind them.


Seriously, faggots, i recommend visiting a library or googling some personal recollections of soldiers that survived D-day.

Not to mention, D-day wasnt even all that importart, but its a nice marketing action for USA.
The war would still end in a year, the Soviets were steamrolling the germans so fucking hard, the nazis couldnt keep up with all the retreating.

Probably because it was successful. That's pretty much the story of the pacific. One successful fuck up after another.

But a very effective way to kill white men