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Offline Mongoose

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Reply #60 on: July 22, 2005, 12:11:26 am
As StarTrek.com so appropriately said, "Here's to ya, lad."  RIP to the best engineer Starfleet ever had :(
 

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Reply #61 on: July 22, 2005, 12:36:06 am
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:lol:

Probably was making a rude gesture at a German bunker...


:lol:

"Here's a present for ya laddies! *Gives the finger* *finger gets shot of by a .50* OW! Son of a *****!"

lame i know, but i couldn't help myself. :p
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Reply #62 on: July 24, 2005, 06:02:04 pm
Actually, the guy took 6 machine gun bullets including one to the chest (which was stopped by his silver cigarette case).

I wouldn't want to have been at Normandy during D-Day.  Storming an entrenched enemy from the water wasn't a stroke of genius.
 

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Reply #63 on: July 24, 2005, 07:49:27 pm
but it was the only way to do it. the Germans had AA bunkers all over the place, so Roosevelt took a gamble and stormed Normandy the old-fashioned way.

Kudos to Jimmy for getting through that hell-hole. :yes:
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Reply #64 on: July 24, 2005, 08:00:17 pm
Hey, at least he wasn't an American Marine on Iwo Jima. Christ, those guys died left and right.

even though Marines are better than anyone else
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Reply #65 on: July 25, 2005, 01:25:48 am
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Reply #66 on: July 25, 2005, 06:06:26 am
[color=66ff00]Now I'm not up to scratch with the particulars of the Normandy invasion but couldn't the allies just have shelled the beach from a boat, created an opening, and vastly increased the survival rate?
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Reply #67 on: July 25, 2005, 06:23:25 am
I think they did, but it wasn't effective against the bunkers.  Juno beach had 1 and ahlaf hours bombardment from artillery (and tanks;' sitting on the decks of the ships), battleship barrages as well as bomber raids in the months preceeding; but this only destroyed 14% of the actual bunkers.  

Obviously a super-concentrated attack over a long period of time would have alerted the Germans, as well.
 

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Reply #68 on: July 25, 2005, 11:23:34 pm
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Hey, at least he wasn't an American Marine on Iwo Jima. Christ, those guys died left and right.

even though Marines are better than anyone else


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