Comments by "WALTERBROADDUS" (@WALTERBROADDUS) on "What's Wrong with Private Jackson's Sniper Rifle? (Saving Private Ryan)" video.

  1. That didn't even sound right as a theory.
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  2. 🙋🏽‍♂️ small point of order. There were United States Marines involved in the operation at D-Day. All the large ships had Marine detachments.
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  3.  @Mrstrangert392  Assigned to the secretive world of spies and saboteurs were 51 Marines who served with the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to engage in behind-the-lines operations in North Africa and Europe from 1941 to 1945.  These OSS Marines served with partisan and resistance groups in France, Germany, Yugoslavia, Italy, Austria, Albania, Greece, Morocco and Egypt; on the islands of Corsica and Sardinia; in Rumania; and in North and West Africa.  Ten of these OSS Marines also served with forces in Ceylon, Burma, Malaya and China.  Col Peter J. Ortiz was twice awarded the Navy Cross for heroism while serving with the French Resistance as a member of the OSS. Shipboard detachments of Marines served throughout the landings in North Africa, the Mediterranean and the Normandy invasion as gun crews aboard battleships and cruisers.  A 200-man detachment was normally carried aboard a battleship and 80 Marines served aboard cruisers to man the secondary batteries of 5-inch guns providing fire for the landing forces. During the 6 June 1944 Normandy invasion, Marines, renowned as expert riflemen, played a vital role reminiscent of the days of the sailing Navy when sharpshooters were sent to the “fighting tops.”  Stationed high in the superstructures of the invasion fleet, Marine riflemen exploded floating mines in the path of the ships moving across the English Channel to the beaches of Normandy. On 29 August 1944, during the invasion of southern France, Marines from the battleship USS Augusta and the cruiser USS Philadelphia went ashore in Marseilles harbor to accept the surrender of more than 700 Germans who had fortified island garrisons. Although few, these proud Marines played a vital role in the Atlantic, African and European campaigns of World War II. https://www.usmcu.edu/Research/Marine-Corps-History-Division/Brief-Histories/Marines-in-World-War-II/Marines-in-the-Atlantic-Europe-and-Africa/
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  4. No one ever said it was historically accurate. The story is fictional.
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