bloody omaha

[redhand]

just watched bloody omaha.They did not mention once about the special tanks that failed to make it onto the beach.The americans did not use the tanks to a large extent.
On the british beaachs dd tanks were used .They swam ashore and were available to blast the german bunkers.

[sunflower68]

I watched this superb doc too redhand; maybe they were just focusing on the terrible time Omaha beach had; were the special tanks for Brits/Canadians?
I think they were looking at the American invasion of Normandy and from what you say, they didn't use the tanks.

[redhand]

the yanks did not use the tanks to a great extent.
flamethrower
tanks that could swim ashore
tanks that fired a 100lb charge to blow up bunkers
mineclearing tanks
I agree still a good documentry,new things were found out especially that beach photo

[sunflower68]

And the training and secrecy behind it all- amazing.

[vehelpfulguy]

I seem to remember that the British tried to come up with a lot of new ideas for this (and other) beach invasions.

The Americans thought many of them were rather strange and refused to use them.

There was a documentary on the TV (Discovery?) a year or so back.

See "Hobarts funnies" on the internet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart's_Funnies

http://www.d-daytanks.org.uk/info/funnies.html

[legend758duo]

Good to see the old soldiers.Shocking too tho.

[legend758duo]

Puts iraq war into perspective.The casualties nearly 4000 in hours?Sometimes i think people today expect wars to be casualty free due to cruise missiles and modern weapons.

[anotheoldgit]

Puts iraq war into perspective.

This was a World War legend758duo, not a localised war against insurgents, and I don't think there has been any cruise missiles used in Iraq or Afghanistan, as you suggest.

And to somehow try to belittle these conflics against the much larger World War, just because there has not been the same huge lost of life, is being somewhat insensitive to the families of those that have lost their lives on both sides.