Comments by "Ember Fist" (@emberfist8347) on "D-Day: Why Mines Didn’t Work" video.

  1. Here is another noted failure of mines. They need to be able to be triggered. At Peleliu, the Japanese placed mines (actually repurposed aircraft bombs) on the beach to destroy landing craft and they would be detonated by wires connecting them. The thing is the one thing the US Navy bombardment of White Beach succeeded at was destroying the wires needed to trigger the mines by the amount of shrapnel. It probably wasn’t that much of a comfort for the Marines landing however as they had everything else go wrong for them.
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  2. Keeping those troops in Norway made sense. The Allies put a lot of effort into convincing the Germans they would land in Norway and the Pas de Calais again in a two-pronged attack and Normandy was a feint. They went the whole nine yards too with commandos doing landings on beaches and gathering samples of the soil like they did with the real landing beaches.
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  3.  @bubbasbigblast8563 Buying off Spain was unlikely. Franco was another fascist.
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  4.  @K_Kara Well you need to secure your supply lines. Also they needed the heavy for their atomic bombs project which were frequently raided by Allied special forces. So naturally they had to send more troops after the successful raids.
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  5.  @allangibson8494 Or Nazi POWs in Denmark’s case.
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  6. Agreed. The Germans should have definitely invested more into this stuff than they did. The Operations Room did a series about the Battle of the Bugle and you could do a drinking game every time the narrator mentions that the German advanced stopped due to a bridge not supporting the weight of their tanks or being blown by the Allies.
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  7.  @Wavy_Gravy  That is not all you need. And they didn't have unlimited ammo.
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  8.  @patrickbateman312  And your proof? The Allies weren’t going to work with another fascist Franco wasn’t that popular. Exhibit A Casablanca states Rick supported the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War as foreshadowing for his anti-fascist leanings. This was released in 1942 shortly after Operation Torch.
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