My dad was part of the 6th Beach Battalion which was the only Navy group that landed with the Army on Omaha Beach. He was in one of the very first Higgins boats that landed. How he made it off that beach is nothing but a miracle and a lot of luck. He lost many friends that morning.
They need to remember that P-47 Thunderbolts were also destroying armored columns and enemy personnel behind enemy lines. Over 14,000 sorties were flown by the Army Airforce and RAF pilots during the Normandy invasion.

Thanks for bring another perspective to that Bloody Morning. Most of the info presented in the past was of the actions by the men stranded on that Bloody Beach. You have put into the mix the actions of the Navy also stranded in that blood drenched waters. It is a tribute to those of both British and American Commanders who acted to be the guns, not called upon to act but acted by sight using the guns that made it to the beach fronts. My Dad was in Italy in the 3rd Army and missed this but had landed in Anzio and walked up the Boot being wounded in the Mountains above Pisa. I may not know the reality in Normandy but as I grew, my Dad told me at first and added my young brothers, his story of his war. I've met four other men who also fought that war. Some were part of the air drop or a glider pilot for the 101st. Another was part of the companies from Hawaii. One of my adult friends, who was an American who's father was a Brit Expat in China and then when in seminary in Britain joined the RAF in the first weeks of the war, shot down over Norway, fought with the Norwegian Resistance but crossed over into Sweden when his face was on wanted posters, living in Sweden until the end of the war. Now as of today's date all have died. I am one of a few who has some of their stories. Cold hands and feet of Bastogne. Fight over the bridge too far and landing in Bastogne with the medical team sent to replace those who were lost and saved may who would have died. Doctors who worked while under direct bombardment. Those deadly 88's and Hitler's Buzz Saws. A man taken prisoner who was still in his red stripped pants as he was about to shave. Even my uncles who fought in the Pacific from Guadalcanal to Leyte to Okinawa, I know some of their stories, but all have pasted, joining those who have died those many years past on beaches, forward positions and muddy fields or frozen ground. Hearing my dad's voice tell me of the time to got the nick name, liberator of the wine, taken from bell towers of every town they liberated. They are all gone now but some of their stories are not the full view of their war. Thanks for putting forward these men who acted when they saw men on the beach needed their help and delivered.

I had an Uncle in the US Army who was a radio operator on Omaha. Family history has it that as he was coming ashore something blew-up behind him knocking down into the sand.  He got up and got to cover. Whoever he was assigned to wanted to send a message. My Uncle tried to use his radio and it didn't work. He took it off and upon looking at the radio-set it had been destroyed by shrapnel. His radio saved his life.

The same thing happened all up and down the coast of South Vietnam.  American destroyers for years blew the hell out of NVA positions along the South China Sea.

This was a demonstration of the incompetence of Bradley and others involved. After Tarawa, doctrine called for direct support on the beachhead by destroyers. Any generals or admirals who did not understand or educate themselves on the doctrine were patently and criminally responsible for all of the deaths. There was no excuse for this result.  The only reason the U.S. and its allies won WWII was in order: Industrial might, logistics, technological superiority, breaking enemy codes, and citizen soldiers who simply refused to obey the stupid orders of their "leaders." As far as the military leadership was concerned the vast majority of them were incompetent and dangerous and not in a good way. Those that we claim are military geniuses are barely average.  With proper implementation of doctrine, the defenses of the Germans were able to be overcome by 30 minutes of application.

Depicting Bradley wearing a US Third Army patch for a clickbait completely tanks the channels credibility.

I’ve seen and read a bunch of these accounts of WWII and Bradley seems to be at the center of most of em. Omaha beach, battle of the bulge, operation plunder. Omaha seemed to overwhelm him, until the destroyers saved the operation (no thanks to him). It was Bradley that was attacked first at the bulge and separated from his command. It was Bradley’s men that Montgomery wanted along with fuel and supplies for plunder. He’s lucky Patton crossed when he did. Saving him the embarrassment of Montgomery crossing with his troops. My opinion of Bradley has gone way down. He should be thanking his “STARS” that Patton and the other generals covered for him.

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