How scary was it to be on the d-day landing crafts? Do we have any anecdotes or diaries from soldiers surviving this?
How scary was it to be on the d-day landing crafts? Do we have any anecdotes or diaries from soldiers surviving this?
Alexander Cox
James Walker
>surviving
I don't know about that but in simulations i.e. in video games, it can still be a harrowing experience. I imagine multiplying that hundredfold for the actual thing.
Jaxson Long
Jaxson Bell
scary enough that they purposefully destroyed the film rolls from the omaha landing then claimed 10 times as many men died in st. lo which the germans just retreated from
Nathan Gutierrez
here's an anecdote. i would have shit myself to death if faced with those odds
Oliver Diaz
I don't know but those guys had much more balls than I ever will
Logan Wilson
From what I've heard it wasn't as concentrated as movies like saving private ryan make it seem. The beach was much longer and the machine gun nests were farther apart. What this meant is that instead of a 50 yard dash into a MG42 it was more like a long trudge up a slight slope while covered in cold water, wondering if you were going to get shot. Which is much worse.
Honestly though, for the Russians it was pretty much an average Tuesday.
Noah Nguyen
And yet Severloh's 2 MG42s still covered so much beach that he could kill 2800.
Jordan Mitchell
goddamn you are gullible