Originally Posted by
gums
Salute!
Hope Britain proles realized how brutal and inportant Normandy was. Most proles here in the Colonies just remember a movie or two.
Many do not realize that 3 outta the 5 beaches were landed by British and Canadian forces. And you know what? After a day the Allies had established a beach head and were moving east.
Gums sends...
Indeed but not very far... at least for a while. Most people don't know how brutal and intense the fighting was in Normandy (for all sides). Lots of books out there- Six Armies in Normandy by John Keegan being imo one of the best.
One of the things that amazes me is how it was planned and put together so that everything and everyone was in the right place at the right time...well almost anyway. And all without computers- just lots of bods with typewriters. The staff work must have been staggering.