RE: This Is Pretty Cool
December 3, 2018 at 6:57 pm
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2018 at 7:14 pm by Gawdzilla Sama.)
I still think it.
The D-Day landings were conducted by infantry divisions with some tank support. The beaches were then used for landing troops and supplies until the Channel ports were liberated and returned to working order. Ships, truck, tanks and feet crossed those beaches for a good while after June 6th, 1944. It would therefore be obvious that the bulk of metallic debris in those sands would be from post-D-day traffic.
(December 3, 2018 at 4:46 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Mad cool, Min. I read somewhere that something like 4% of the beach sand at Normandy is actually tiny bits of metal from the invasion. Staggering.
Boru
The D-Day landings were conducted by infantry divisions with some tank support. The beaches were then used for landing troops and supplies until the Channel ports were liberated and returned to working order. Ships, truck, tanks and feet crossed those beaches for a good while after June 6th, 1944. It would therefore be obvious that the bulk of metallic debris in those sands would be from post-D-day traffic.
