28-11-2007, 01:47 AM
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__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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28-11-2007, 02:15 PM
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| i read in one book that u.s destroyers had to nearly beach themselves at omaha beach to engage guns in bunkers,but another book says r.n hunt class destroyers did because of their shallow draught.does anyone know.yours very sincerely,lee. |
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28-11-2007, 02:34 PM
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| Ostfront is where its at!   Join Date: Apr 2004
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| Lee, that is correct as far as I know. It might have been Stephen Ambrose's book "D-Day" that refers to it. He credits the Destroyer Captains as responsbile for ensuring that Omaha Beach was held on 6th june. Brave guys indeed.
__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) |
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28-11-2007, 02:41 PM
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| Sword was by far the most heavily defended of all the landing beaches. The shelling forced the beach to be abandoned for further supply landings. There is somewhere a Schematic print of the landing serials. The first ashore were the DD tanks almost immediately the Sappers. Both Assault and Field. All tasked with different assault and defensive positions to overcome. All were successful. AS well as the printout of the landing serials, there is also a chart in double A4 size showing the pre D day position of every sea going craft in Southampton water. I have both here somewhere in the house. I would hazard a guess that they are on the net somewhere? I got mine from the Normandy Veteran Association. Sapper |
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28-11-2007, 02:48 PM
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| On Sword the defenders were part of the 716th Static division backed up by elements of 21st Panzer as far as I know.
__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) |
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28-11-2007, 03:46 PM
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| You missed out the 12th SS Hitler Jugend Panzer Div. The toughest div in Normandy BAR NONE! As we knew to our cost. I also have a list of the Enemy units opposite us.....at first, seven and half panzer divs against the British.. Half a panzer div against the Americans. I have upstairs a copy of the original Sword D day maps...Day one and day two..The originals maps are in a museum. A mate of mine from the 1st Suffolks (Eighth Brigade)had them stuffed inside his uniform blouse when he arrived back in the UK. That was OK! some arrived back with primed grenades in their bosons. Sapper |
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28-11-2007, 03:50 PM
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__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) | |
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