I think something like half of those casualties were at one beach (“Omaha”?), which is the one featured in all the fillums. For some of the other four landing sites they all but strolled ashore and into France.
AFAIK one of the big fuck ups was that they were supposed so land loads of paratroopers behind the beaches but the Germans flooded those landing sites so a lot if the paratroopers drowned.
Yes Omaha was where the Americans landed and bore the brunt of it.
What are you talking about?
The Americans missed a lot of their drop zones.
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Tank reckons the Germans broke out a hose and created a few puddles to drown the yanks.
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Still, the Nazis were not caught entirely by surprise by the D-Day landing. Back in 1943, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was handpicked by Hitler to lead the German army’s defense of the Normandy region. He began by fortifying the Atlantic Wall in Normandy with more machine gun bunkers, millions of beachfront landmines, and by flooding inland marshes to trap Allied paratroopers. Rommel’s strategic preparations would ultimately help the Nazis inflict terrible Allied casualties on D-Day.
https://www.dday-overlord.com/en/d-day/air-operations/usa
Thus, many paratroopers found themselves dropped to several tens of kilometers from their initial objectives. Others, less fortunate still, felt into the marshes and drowned there. Some paratroopers drowned by less than a meter of water, being extremely loaded. John Taylor, a paratrooper belonging to the 101st Airborne Division, remembered: “ Those who jumped from the C-47 before me drowned in a marsh, just like those who jumped after me. I landed on a t hin strip of land a few meters wide that crossed the marshes “.
Ooft, as they say on here.
I should say that I’m not a historian so I don’t know how many paratroopers died in the German marsh traps, as @Fagan_ODowd says the paratroopers mostly missed their dropzones anyway, but I do know more than some history graduates I could think of.
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So 4 lads drowned in a marsh that already existed?
Start as you mean to continue the year, knuckle down.
You too bud, jumping through hoops.
You’re digging in like Rommel dug his marshes, with as much long-term success.
Tank may be jumping through hoops but he has you drowning in marshes
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Sound of Music on BBC here.
It’s basically the same ten minutes on a loop.
I’d strongly recommend avoiding.
It’s absolutely dire
We turned it off after an hour.
God knows what the rest is like if that was the good bit.
Utter tedium.
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Who said Belfast wasn’t about religion? 30 minutes straight of Catholic / Protestant … I turned it off.
It’s shite
Protestant against Protestant was as big a theme.
I thought don’t look up was good, surprised so many folk didn’t like it.
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It touched on gambling problems too