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Re: omaha beach idea Couldn't have said it any better myself. Points to you Mp5-Killa. |
Re: omaha beach idea you have a point on the beaches, I agree, I am a bit iggnorant of the beaches, I usualy foucus my studies on Omaha and Du Hoc. |
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any of u guys heard the words tht churchill said on the night before d-day: my dear, when u wake up tomorrow morning, there will be 20,000 men dead, or something like tht,(im trying to do this off of memory) |
Re: omaha beach idea Casualties doesn't necessary mean dead. A casualty is dead + wounded men + missing/capture. DDay casualty : 10,000 D Day dead: 2500. American casualty: 6603 American dead: 1465 American wounded : 3184 the rest are capture or missing (so 1928 normally dead but we don't really know how many the german has captured). Only the ww1 have seen big number about the dead, i think in 3 days british has lost 30 000 men (battle of the somme). In the first month of ww1 , france has 250 000 casualties but i don't now exactly the number of dead (certaintly around 170 000) |
Re: omaha beach idea You may be correct about the battle fo the somme there Seth, according to an old history textbook of mine, Haig launched 27 divisions (750,000 men) against the German front line ( 16 divisions) with massive artillary barrage before the attack at 7:30 AM (1st July 1916). The artillary barrage failed to do anything, and the barbed wire was even more spread out and the German bunkers remained. The attack resulted in the worst day for the British army in its history. The British expeditinary force lost 20,000 men and another 40,000 were injured. About the differences in casulaties on D-Day. Statistics are extremely variable because some may count the casulaties on the actual beaches while some may count the entire day's worth of casualties. |
Re: omaha beach idea ok, i was wrong about the number of dead it was 30 000 and not 20 000. I've taken this offensive because it is major battle for the brits and still commemorate nowadays with poppy symbol. My aim was to explain that casualties doesn't mean dead by "out of service". I know that the number of division engaged was hugue compared to dday but imagine the difference when you wake up: 7 june : 2500 dead (casualties = 10 000) 2nd Jully: 30 000 dead (casualties = 60 000 or more) |
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(believe me, im doing WW1 in history just now) |
Re: omaha beach idea It was 60,000 casualties. Seth is trying to get you to see that casulaties aren't the same as fatalaties. Casualities includes all men injured (including the dead). However one third of those men did die and a massive 20,000 were killed. |
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Re: omaha beach idea hey the whole length of the beach from water to cliffs is a huge 500 Yards :O imagine that for FH2 |
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