by SK790 » Sat Apr 28, 2012 22:24:08
swishnicholson wrote:That's Nightman's rule, anyway.
by SK790 » Sat Apr 28, 2012 23:11:22
by Bucky » Sat Apr 28, 2012 23:16:33
by jerseyhoya » Sat Apr 28, 2012 23:17:46
by SK790 » Sat Apr 28, 2012 23:20:50
jerseyhoya wrote:Check is in the mail
by BDawk » Sun Apr 29, 2012 02:12:24
by kruker » Sun Apr 29, 2012 03:58:08
Sixty-eight years ago today, the Allies launched a massive dress rehearsal for the invasion of Normandy — the famous D-Day landings that would happen five weeks later. But that rehearsal turned into one of the war's biggest fiascos.
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"The torpedoes tear into these vessels and literally blow them apart," Milton says. "They all catch fire and there's complete carnage, pandemonium. Men on fire, tanks on fire, the ships on fire. And of course, the ships starting to sink."
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"Now, the idea was that the shelling would stop very, very shortly before the American soldiers came onshore, so that the wreckage of war would still be around," Milton said. "The smells of war, the sounds, the shell-blasted beach would be there. But there was a terrible mixup of timings, which meant that as the American soldiers came onto the shore, the British were still shelling the beach. [This] meant the Americans came under devastating friendly fire from the British."
Within minutes, 300 more American troops were dead. Gerolstein helped ferry some of the wounded to the hospital.
