Comments by "Seek1878" (@loner1878) on "History Buffs"
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They did. Several veteran soldiers have said the opening naval barrage on D day was one of the loudest things they had ever heard.
A total of 68 destroyers participated in the bombardment of the 5 beaches. The reason it didn't work that well though was due to German skill in fortification building...the fortifications took many direct hits, dozens in some cases, but even the 14-inch shells failed to penetrate. The shells made pock marks, the knocked away some concrete, they exposed the steel reinforcing rods, but they did not penetrate." However, many of the German gunners inside were rendered deaf or knocked out by concussions from being inside a concrete bunker.
The crazy thing is that Normandy was not even the most heavily fortified region of the coast. The Calais region, further up the coast, where the crossing between Britain and the mainland was the shortest, was much more heavily fortified. The further you got from that point, the lighter the defenses got. Normandy was chosen because it was away from the heaviest fortifications but still close enough to Britain to have meaningful air support.
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