A haunting story about D-Day

[RED]

https://youtu.be/MdzWRdZgan0

[rayg]

Thank you!

[Art]

Thanks so much, RED. Old Sam Elliott does a great job in situations like this.

One thing that's incidental here that's shown in other venues but not really explained is that some Higgins Boat coxswains dropped their ramps before the boat actually contacted the beach. The drop-off on those beaches at low tide is steep and if you left the ramp in that situation you were almost surely going to be stepping off into water over your head. A soldier going over the side of the boat to have a better chance of escaping machine gun fire would have the same problem. An awful lot of men drowned that day.

[k arga]

I wonder how many generals stepped off into water over their head ?

[RED]

How many Generals and Admirals that did that would have benefited their commands more by doing it?

[bruce]

In the water. On the beach. Privates ... officers. All. All were hero's. I've met and known a few of those men. All were hero's. All of them. Almost all are now gone. RIP. Sincerely. bruce.

[barretcreek]

The Bedford Boys by Alex Kershaw.

Story of the VA NG unit which was the first to land on the beach.

Sgt. Lambert's unit.

[tom gray]

Thanks for this

[tmark]

Fantastic!