Remembering the Horrors of D-Day - Victor Davis Hanson

[Geee]

American Greatness

The men at Omaha did not believe America had to be perfect to be good—just far better than the alternative. 

Seventy-nine years ago this week, the Allies assaulted the Normandy beaches on D-Day, June 6, 1944. 

Their invasion marked the largest amphibious landing since the Persians under Xerxes invaded the Greek mainland in 480 B.C. 

Nearly 160,000 American, British, and Canadian soldiers stormed five beaches of Nazi-occupied France. The plan was to liberate Western Europe after four years of occupation, push into Germany, and end the Nazi regime.

 

Less than a year later, the Allies from the West, and the Soviet Russians from the East, did just that, utterly destroying Hitler’s Third Reich. 

Ostensibly, the assault seemed impossible even to attempt. 

Germany had repulsed with heavy Canadian losses an earlier Normandy raid at Dieppe in August 1942. 

The Germans also knew roughly when the Allies were coming. They placed their best general, Erwin Rommel, in charge of the Normandy defenses. 

 

 

The huge D-Day force required enormous supplies of arms and provisions just to get off the beaches. Yet the Allies had no means of capturing even one port on the nearby heavily fortified French coast. 

To land so many troops so quickly, the Allies would have to ensure complete naval and air supremacy. :snip:

 

[Valin]

1 hour ago, Geee said:

American Greatness

The men at Omaha did not believe America had to be perfect to be good—just far better than the alternative.

 

Whee we see a major difference between The Left (thinking  Progressives) & The Right. It seem to me that Politically Close Enough is Good Enough works for us on The Right. For The Left The Revolution  Must continue, nothing must prevent it.  Thomas  Jefferson Believed the Revolution must continue, Big Fan of The French Revolution,  and that The Constitutions must be rewritten every generation. This lead to a falling out with John Adams. Only when Perfection has will The Revolution be over....See  Marx.