Could you imagine jumping from an amphibious personnel carrier with 50mm machine gun fire coming down on you from atop a cliff. The chances of the survival were absurdly small.
The only hope was that while the nazi bastards were busy targeting and killing some soldiers, a few others would sneak past...only to have to scale those cliffs and dodge the hand grenades that were being dropped on them.
Obammie the Commie has some effing nerve criticizing America.
When you think about it, it is really a sobering thought that those men charged into battle knowing that they would be more than likely be killed.
It wasn’t much different than the old “kneel in front of the enemy, fire and let the next line do the same” until we beat the enemy.
I had uncles and a father that fought in WWII. Some came back, some did not. One at Omaha. One at Anzio. One at Iwo Jima.
Very, very brave men.
My head will always be bowed to them.
It is a hell that is almost unimaginable.