bl4ckh4wk64 said:
THEJORRRG said:
I've fired an M1 Garand and it is unmatched in how it feels to fire. It's my fav rifle. The only other WWII era guns I've fired was the Owen gun (mentioned above, suprisingly) which is completely un-aimable and the BAR which broke about 5 times in the half hour i used it.
Ldude893 said:
Some german single-handedly killed hundreds of American troops using this weapon on D-Day.
He would've had a bloody hard time if he was only aiming for Americans.
Different countries had different beaches. The Brits and Canadians didn't have such massacres as Omaha beach, but different nationalities weren't really that mixed. The Brits had Gold, and Sword. The Canadians had Juno. And The Americans had Utah and Omaha. Omaha was probably the hardest one that was taken and it produced the most casualties of any of the D-day Landings. Each nationality had their own beach to take, so you wouldn't expect a Canadian at any beach other than Juno, and you didn't see a Brit at any beach other than Gold or Sword.
True, that is how the beaches were designated, but My grandad (who is british) was on Utah. He told me the organisation wes such a mess in the attack that platoons would get spit up. He was along side an American man who threw up on him, some Indians directly in front of him, and the driver of the landing craft was Australian. Some parties stayed well organised and ended up on te same crafts, but he said most of his, and many other soldiers' parties ended up split up, and amoungst people they'd never met.
A German bomb got a hit right next to his craft, capsizing it. Everyone (as far as he could tell) were gone except him and the American, who managed to drag my grandad to shore and defended him until they could get out. Whoever that American soldier was died, but he saved my grandad's life. Without whoever he was, I wouldn't be here today.