D Day

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by faded glory
French too.....alot of frenchmen landed at normandy. 8,000 were killed. Most at omaha...and sword

8 000 frenchman were killed? The total fatality count for all Allied forces ran at less than 7000, IIRC.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


8 000 frenchman were killed? The total fatality count for all Allied forces ran at less than 7000, IIRC.

Perhaps he is referring to the ones who were beaten to death by Allied troops who couldn't stand their snotty, cheese-eating anti-everythingism.

[KrazyHorse]

The casualty rate must have run near 100%...

Wait! My grandfather made it through. Maybe it only applies to Euro frenchies...

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Dissident
there are times I think Hitler wanted to lose. I think in private he was a masochist.

Perhaps he had a subconscious Shakespearean Tragic Hero syndrome.

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Perhaps he had a subconscious Shakespearean Tragic Hero syndrome.

'til American woods be come to Berlin City (needed an extra syllable)

We had REAL camouflage, not branches of trees.

Sorry, I just read Macbeth in English.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by faded glory
1100 german tanks sat there...doing nothing for the first 7 days. Hitler was an idiot, why would the allies STILL attack pas de calais, when there was 700,000 already on shore in normady.

Hitler had to believe that because the entire German intelligence network in England was reporting that the real attack was coming at the Pas de Calais.

What Hitler never knew was that his intelligence network in England wasn't so much a network as it was just one guy. And that guy wasn't working for German intelligence but rather British intelligence.

Hail to Garbo, the greatest unsung hero of the Normady invasion.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
FG, it has been well-established by history that der Fuhrer was perhaps the greatest ally we had in defeating the Nazis. As a propagandist he may have been brilliant, but as a military tactician he was a complete bonehead.

All he had to have done was let Rommel set up the defenses of Normandy like the field marshall had wanted to. The Allies wouldn't have gotten much past the beaches.

His panzers would have been eaten up by allied air attacks if he had kept them that close to the beach. Allied fighters were looking for anything they could shoot up (I make them sound like junkies!) within their range. While Rommel's strategy would have made things more difficult for the allies, the Germans were so overmatched at this point that they really had no chance, all of the History Channel "Hitler's Sedative" shows notwithstanding.

This is not to say that the men on the beach on both sides weren't fighting for their lives. But to answer some of this other strategy talk, the war was all but won already, and D-Day was another installment payed in blood.

[aaglo]

D-Day.... one day in the history that had nothing to do with Finland. But that's why nobody here remembers it. That was a great day for the allied forces. And a sad day for many.

[Bereta_Eder]

i couldn't care less actually. who gives a damn?

i know about the greeks repulsing a country 6 times larger and then despite this huge struggle giving a hard time to another country of the same size

what happened to a few yanks who happened to find themselves somewhere in europe to throw some firecrackers around hardly interests me

i'm more interested in those who actually fought the war like greeks serbs and russians

as for the gay brits, the krauts were better than them as it turned out

[ZoboZeWarrior]

Originally posted by panag
hi ,
its cause we are the devil himself , .......
have a nice day

Who doubt of that ? Your ancestor killed our God.

Fortunatly, He was strong enough to resurect him-self ...

[ZoboZeWarrior]

Hitler was a mystical paranoid.

He lost many battle because he listen his phantasm and not his (competent) generals.

eg: He lost the air battle of England because he decided to bomb London and not continue to bomb airports as proposed by his generals.

[Saras]

Paiktis, you are an idiot.

[Bereta_Eder]

kindly notice the cool smilie on top of previous thread

says the guy who thinks nazis are more humane than communists

get over your hatred for the russians and then we can talk

[Saras]

--"says the guy who thinks nazis are more humane than communists"

Find me say that, cut and paste. I dare you.

--"get over your hatred for the russians and then we can talk"

What that untrue statement has to do with your denigration of the importance of D-Day landings is beyond me.

[Bereta_Eder]

mind you besides a well deserved snob attitude towards some countries who don't know anything beyond their noses, I did not say anything incorrect, anything that did not happen