Could you do it, my children? Could you charge Omaha beach?

You mean to ask if I could be huddled onto a small boat and jettisoned towards a beach?

yeah probably.

>>1432998
could you get shot at and not lose your spaghetti?

>156 000 Strength
>10 000 killed


yeah i'll take my chances. god is there anything more overhyped than this bullshit

>>1433010
charging into machinegun fire can never be over hyped, my son

Much spaghetti would be spilt for the first 8 minutes, then much sprinting towards the mainland with a full and wet diaper for the rest of the battle.

>>1432994
Why would I charge it?
I would be mowing the shitbag Yanks down

>>1433015
ein reich ein volk ein fuhrer my son

>>1433015
But then ud get owned by flamethrowers..

>>1432998

>See krauts shooting at me
>look down
>shuffle my feet
>"y-you too"

>>1433010
This. My God. I will grit my teeth and run into machinegun fire any day. Giving a public speech and having to live with the consequences is much more terrifying.

>>1433022
Most LCVPs and LCAs were sandbarred 25-100 yards from the beach, all of the soldiers with the heavy equipment (BARs w/Ammo, Mortar crew, and lastly the Flamethrowers) were in the back of the boat with the NCO. They almost didn't get to use the flame throwers on the bunkers because the riflemen already pushed past the bunkers once they got out of the water and onto the beach.

>>1433102
>/his/ tries to make a joke

you guys have no comedic bone stop

>>1432994
No.
Because I'm a Canuck and we don't suffer till Caen.

>>1433118
still better humor than /a/ and /co/...

>>1433010
156 000 is the number landed. Most of those didn't land under fire.

>>1433124
They considered Dieppe and let us off easy.

>>1432998

This. In the moment you don't really have time to think about it, you just react. The lifelong PTSD comes later.

Seems really chill compared to WW1 trench charges.

>>1433004
You think those guys didn't lose their spaghetti?

>>1433384
it's easy to not lose your spaghetti in a buner behind the greatest MG ever built

I'm surprised only 5-10 thousand died in the landing phase. Pair that with the fact that Germans had equal casualties goes to show how shit static defenses are per cost.

What I find more haunting is how many of the 165,000 soldiers that landed saw little to not combat. For some, the battle was a simple morning jog and shooting Germans in the back. For others, it was dying instantly and becoming a hero.

>>1433022
worth it desu

>>1433124
Dieppe was a mission made to fail. Wehrmacht had mortars sighted by distance on the beach because they had advance intel. Why the fuck else would they send Canadians. We were the front line for the British Empire for a hundred years before that my child

>>1433390

they were all heroes my son. If you can charge MG42 fire and not lose your shit your name goes down in history (or at least it should)

>>1433390
the beaches were guarded by fort divisions
meaning low on manpower (many slavs, volunteering or conscripts), low on heavy weaponry

apart from omaha, where a full german infanterie division was stationed, practicing shore defense tactics

>>1433409
Slavs? on the western front? C'mon man hahaha

I would be under a shit ton of substances and I would have a blast. [ literally]

>>1433416
that's the style my son. not that there were many substances available in 1944

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Juno beach, glory for all eternity

>>1433414
yes there were a few osttruppen in the west
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostlegionen

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>>1433118
What joke?

>>1433390
>What I find more haunting is how many of the 165,000 soldiers that landed saw little to not combat.

That's really the case in almost any war, though.

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Nazis so bad the nazis would have put them before a war crimes tribunal

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holy shit when will people let go of this "charging" the pillboxes at omaha meme.

the real landing was not saving private ryan. geographically speaking, the beach was A LOT longer than depicted in the movie. pic related, notice how you can just barely make out the tops of the bluffs from the back of the higgins boat?

this is not to say it wasn't brutal or bloody as far as infantry engagements go. but the reality is that most of the combat did not take the form of anyone "charging" the german defenses. the entire landing took hours, for the better half of an entire day, and most of that time would have been spent slowly crawling with your head in the dirt, until you could just barely manage to secure a position to start firing back from.

>>1433420

Some whiskey & morphine plus my lack of will to live is all I would need.

>>1433445
MG42
making allies piss themselves since '42

>>1433447
take an objective, get a rum ration. the Canadian way

>>1433022
>'how much is an Axis soldiers life worth?'
About 25 Allied soldiers lives.

If I was fighting with my ancestors for the Independent State of Croatia with Germans in Normandy, I'd gladly die after mowing down 10-20 Americans.
>no bully pls

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>>1433470
how was marshall Tito not your hero

>>1433470
If I was fighting with my ancestors for Canada with Allies in Normandy, I'd gladly die after taking fire or jumping on a steilhandgranate for any of my boys who had wives and children back home. PRO VALORE

>>1433395
Shit then I'll just get off the boat, find a nice nook in the beach and pretend to keel over. At battles end I get a meal. Repeat for every battle.