Can understand Normandy

Alanna 2021-12-22 08:01:08


1. Let me talk about the pre-war decision-making at the leadership level.
Climate is a decisive factor. 6.6 If you don’t land, you have to wait at least one month (the moon phase is very important). The landing must be dark, but the subsequent attack must have moonlight.
The tide must reach a certain standard, otherwise the landing will either be too far away and get into a bitter battle on the beach, or too close will encounter fortifications.

Location, in fact, the Chief of Staff of the German Rommel had tried the Normandy landing in the ensign exercise and won, but he thought that Eisenhower would not take a risk.

Not to mention that morale is the norm in every war.
Organized in an orderly manner, even the French resistance organization is
2, during the war:
all kinds of misfortunes when landing. Omaha is the most difficult battle to occupy the military powerhouse
landing craft
.

3. It is strategically successful, because the sacrifice for landing is far less than the survival.
And from a historical point of view, the Eastern Front has already counterattacked into the German mainland at this time, a bit of a taste of the fruits of victory. Of course, Europe and the United States did not pay attention to the Eastern Front War between Germany and Russia.

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  • Lt. Col. Ocker: [Pluskat, inside a bunker, has just realized the Normandy invasion has begun and is warning Ocker, who is skeptical] And just where, my dear Pluskat, are those ships going?

    Maj. Werner Pluskat: Straight for me!

  • [Millen plays the bagpipes as British troops march toward the Germans]

    Pvt. Clough: There it is, he's at it again! Have you ever heard such a racket in all your life?

    Private Flanagan: Yeah, it takes an Irishman to play the pipes.