70th Anniversary of D-Day

[A Theist]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27700479



I had an uncle who was at Pearl Harbor when the attack came, he survived, only one killed on his ship. His ship was one of the most hunted ships in the Pacific by the Japanese. They pissed those boys off and they made the them pay.

GC

They pissed those boys off and they made the them pay.

Midway...the Japanese never recovered from that defeat and afterward were forced into fighting a defensive battle in the South Pacific.

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Yes, but not invented until July and by the time of Operation Cobra the Germans on the American fronts had been whittled down by constant combat and troop detachments to the Caen area.

There were many innovations tried for the Sherman - particularly on D-day itself when different types of mine clearing tanks were developed. They all worked to one degree or another but also all suffered from the same drawback: They were mounted on the Sherman which was no match for the German 75 and 88 mm A/T guns.

Shermans were pretty much garbage compared to what Germany was fielding across the board (save the obsolete crap that was pretty much all destroyed by 1944).

Had we not been able to produce them in massive quantities, we'd have been screwed.

The Tiger was pretty fearsome but it had it's issues. It was under-powered, consumed fuel like crazy, didn't do well in mud and icy conditions, and it was expensive to manufacture, so not a lot of them were made. The allies pretty much stopped them by bombing German fuel depots. Toward the end of the war the Americans put the Pershing tank into service to deal with the Tigers. The Pershings made little impact since they entered battlefield so late.

M-26 Pershing



Tiger II