Comments by "" (@BobSmith-dk8nw) on "Operation Neptune - They come by sea!" video.

  1. "And where are these ships going, Pluskatt?" "They' are coming for ME!!! DIRECT!!!!" .
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  2. Duplex Drive Tank https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XuSneN1W8U The Americans had two Battalions, (one for each Division) with over 100 total tanks aboard LCT's. The Commander of the 2nd unit looked at the sea state and realized they had to deliver the tanks to the shore. To their horror - they realized the 1st unit was going to launch. Most of those tanks sank. The ones that survived were commanded by men with small boat experience - who knew to head their tanks into the swells - rather than let them be hit from the sides. The other tank commanders - did not have any small boat experience and didn't know to do that. The thing was - the current off Omaha was especially bad and hitting the tanks from the side. This current had more than a little to do with the failure of the artificial harbor off Omaha later on. The real problem that caused the loss of that harbor - was that the people running it had been given an inaccurate weather report - so they had not pulled in all their little boats and such that were out sailing about - which the British - with an accurate weather report - HAD done. These loose small boats were what crashed into the causeways and destroyed them. It was NOT as is commonly reported - that the American Harbor was improperly anchored that caused it's damage - but - the small storm driven boats smashing into it that did the harm. The Harbor could have been repaired - but the Officer who was in charge of the evaluation wrote it off and that was the end of it. Chapter XII: "Outlook Wednesday to Friday Little Change ... " p. 189 Force Mulberry by Alfred Stanford https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015034330186&view=1up&seq=189&skin=2021 .
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  3. Two of the greatest crimes against history - was the scrapping of Warspite and Enterprise ... .
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  4.  @BadSkeelz  "Vive le France!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhH6yCQU5fI .
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  5. "Invasion! Sie kommen!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFzdleJarI0 .
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