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 Post subject: Re: Saving Private Ryan
PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 9:22 am 
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Sizemore, Burns, and Damon are super hot. I can't stand Ribisi and goldberg. good movie.


getting a strong IMU vibe with this post for some reason....

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 Post subject: Re: Saving Private Ryan
PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 9:25 am 
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And in real life, why did we storm the beach on boats? Shit, why didn't we send in planes to bomb the hell out of the beach? Then send in the soldiers on boats once it was cleared.

I'm no general, but that would have been the better war strategy.


The weather in the English channel was notoriously inclement, which handicapped air support to a degree, so the invasion had to wait for an opening and for a full moon to expose what underwater defenses the Germans had at the beaches. Plus, the Germans were entrenched in heavy concrete bunkers on the beaches that were resistant to bombing.

If the allies had shown their hand by bombing the beaches ahead of time, the element of surprise of where they were landing would have been lost. Rommel would have ordered his panzer divisions to those beaches, and we would have gotten slaughtered.







We did get slaughtered, it was a bloodbath..I think they should have waited a day or 2 for the weather to clear up.


Tides would have been wrong. The slaughter would have been worse if Rommel wasn’t sitting up in Calais.


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 Post subject: Re: Saving Private Ryan
PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 9:26 am 
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Beardown wrote:
And in real life, why did we storm the beach on boats? Shit, why didn't we send in planes to bomb the hell out of the beach? Then send in the soldiers on boats once it was cleared.

I'm no general, but that would have been the better war strategy.


are you really this ignorant about D-Day? Jesus go watch a fucking documentary or The Longest Day or read a fucking Stephen Ambrose (or whoever really wrote it) book you moron.


You seriously asked why they didn't bomb the beach first?

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 Post subject: Re: Saving Private Ryan
PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 9:35 am 
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