(June 6, 2014 at 2:35 pm)Chuck Wrote:(June 6, 2014 at 2:22 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Strategy. Seems like we simply made the right timing along with good planning.
We didn't put the English channel there, and English channel's fortuitous presence had a lot to do with our ability to sit back and plan and wait until the Russians had done the heavy lifting.
Never attribute to cunning what could be attributed to geography.
Still even with D-Day there were lots of problems. Misjudged tides and the air drops over shooting their targets. I cant imagine being one of those paratroopers being dropped behind enemy lines in the wrong spot like sitting ducks in the air and even if you managed to land.
I couldn't do it even if you forced me. I would have been that guy on the beach frozen behind a rock somewhere trying not to get killed.
