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GulfCoast66

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3. I was a frontal assault against a defended position.

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Thu Jun 6, 2019, 04:42 PM

Jun 2019

The beach had to be taken to prevent the right flank at Utah from being contained. Visiting the cemetery and museum at Omaha beach was one of the most emotional visits of my life.

But I guess it was no worse than the corn field at Antietam, still the bloodiest day in American military history. Nor many battles fought by our soldiers and marines in WW1.

I so hope we never have to send young Americans off to die wholesale like that again. Killing on that scale boggles my mind.

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First Wave at Omaha Beach [View all] turbinetree Jun 2019 OP

Painful. Thank you posting the truth. It was a slaughterhouse MaryMagdaline Jun 2019 #1

My dad came in the 2nd wave. Duppers Jun 2019 #2

I was a frontal assault against a defended position. GulfCoast66 Jun 2019 #3

I walked fields at Antietam, Gettysburg, and other sites Achilleaze Jun 2019 #5

there was no turning back onethatcares Jun 2019 #4