CLEAR THE RAMP

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there is no god

why would anyone want to stand at the front of the boat when they know they're going to be the first to get shot to shit?

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>>82792999
BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP

*reloads*

BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAP-P-P-P

>>82792999

Why the fuck didn't they fire smoke rounds on the beach? Jesus this was stupid.

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Why didn't the eagles take out the machine gun nests?

>>82794663
The opening scene does a poor job of showing how many troops landed at the same time in Normandy, you had terrible luck to be at the front of the boat, but you weren't guaranteed to be killed.

>>82794797
Do you not understand american warfare? We sent waves and waves of men until the bodies make a natural sandbag line
The thing i dont understand is why not shell the beach with cannons from ships

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>>82794663
The guys at the front of the boat should have been given shields.

>>82794615
how old is this pic?

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>>82794832
lol'ed to this post

>>82792999
Why did white american men throw themselves in front of enemy machineguns to save the jews and negroes from the wrath of the german white men?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjCR9YrU2Q0

Doesn't look as bad as it did in the movie...

>>82794663

Patriotism. Knowing that even if takes your life, you're helping make the world a better place.

People have to die in wars, it's a reality. Not every battle or tactic is a perfect scenario where your skills will determine if you live or die.

>>82794722
when you think about it, the Nuremburg Trials were really the first bans for braaapppposting

>>82794960
they did, tho

they just couldn't target the small machine gun nests and pillboxes well enough, but all the major guns were knocked out by destroyers and battleships shelling them.

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>>82795145
The area being fought over has either some tactical, or resource advantage that you don't want the other guy to have.
Its kinda like the US fighting over plots of desert in modern days. We don't really care about the people who live there, we just don't want the 'wrong' types of people having control of it.

>>82794960
They did, the Allies did not have the luxury of shelling for more than a day in advance however because even in his meth-fueled stupidity Hitler might have been firmly convinced by Rommel that the invasion wasn't a meme and the held-back Panzer divisions would have raped them alive a mile from the beaches

>>82794977
>pointlessly firing weapon into the air while screaming and looking the wrong way

hmm yes the perfect soldier

>>82795288
none of that is from Omaha beach, which had the most intense fighting

all in all, despite the casualties D-day was a massive success for the allies

>>82794663
>>82794875
didn't the first wave at omah suffer like 80% casualties or something

>>82794960
>Do you not understand american warfare?
>follows up by demonstrating he doesn't know anything about american warfare
lmao

>>82794977
>The guys at the front of the boat should have been given shields.

In all seriousness why weren't they? They could've taken the beach in like five seconds.

>>82795972
Yeah, I couldn't find good Omaha footage.

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>>82796123
>Shields can stop bullets

Please stop watching anime.

>>82796123
bullet shields aren't a thing

especially not against mounted machineguns

>>82796136
All omaha footage was lost unfortunately. There's like a 5 second reel from a solider who was there on the beach if i remember. But that's pretty much it. The more you know

>>82795452
People don't have to die in wars though

>>82796221
Well, there you go.

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>>82796229
>People don't have to die in wars though

>>82792999
Dude, I remember MOH Frontline.

>>82796123
Shields thick enough to withstand those rounds would have to be mounted on a truck. The truck itself would sink. That's why they didn't unload a whole lot of them.

But what if they had placed the ramps on the side.

>>82792999
5 PIZZA'S. TAFEL 3. NU OPHALEN!

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>>82796221
there's 10 photos by Robert Capa that survived a botched developing. he was aboard an early wave at Omaha, but pussied out and hitched a ride back before the unit he was with made any headway

pic related

>>82792999

SPR is incredibly historically inaccurate. The intense nature of the landing itself was very well done and other than the costumes there's nothing of note.

It's only ever remembered for the first 20 minutes and after that it's honestly not that great of a film in hindsight.Also As good as Hanks is in this every time he was shouting all I can hear is fucking Woody.

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>>82796660

The cinematography of the landing scene definitely took inspiration from the Capa photos.

Juno, Sword, and Gold beaches didn't have nearly as much opposition at the landing because the naval artillery and aerial bombing actually hit their targets.

At Omaha most of the pillboxes, bunkers, and heavy emplacements were completely untouched.

>>82796718
not enough corpses and dismembered limbs

>>82796666
>As good as Hanks is in this every time he was shouting all I can hear is fucking Woody

Same

>>82796229
>People don't have to die in wars though
Well seeing how most wars are fought by men, and they are fought with intent to kill the enemy, I would say you're technically right but also technically, a faggot.

>>82796666
>nothing of note
>wade dying
>the sniper scene
>the kike getting stabbed and upham doing nothing
>the entire final battle

>>82796000

Yeah, literally everything went far better than anyone could have expected on D-Day. It is pretty crazy, Hitler fucked up pretty bad.

>>82795452
>dying in some pointless conflict makes the world a better place

Really makes me think

>>82796732
Also, special forces were air dropped behind enemy lines in order to sabotage the backup artillery

>>82796861
Well, there's a lot of pointless conflict right now in the Muslim shitholes of the world, but WWII is probably not one of them. Thank God for the Japs trying to cripple our navy, now we are practically the planet's military force.

>>82796040
I've heard close to 90% in some places. I remember a story about how almost an entire ship of soldiers was totally wiped out the moment the ramp dropped except for a single guy who got knocked off the ramp into the water and somehow managed to not drown. He crawled out of the water and saw his sergeant or whatever lying wounded. The sergeant raised his upper body up to wave him over and was immediately filled with holes. The surviving guy doesn't know why he wasn't shot, he should've been an easy target lying out on the beach. Thank god shit like this isn't happening now.

>>82797487
>Thank god shit like this isn't happening now.
Not on the scale it used to, no. But America is not at peace. We're in some dozen conflicts scattered across the ME. The only difference is most of the casualties are enemy civilian, because of the doctrine that any military-aged male is a possible jihadist.

The only difference is there's not a lot of flag-draped coffins getting shipped home. The last time that was mentioned was in the first years of Afghanistan and then Iraq.

>>82797627
Yeah, I'm just talking huge scale beach landings and mass slaughter, tho I guess some would say the drone strikes are a form of mass slaughter on their own.

>>82797689
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
Iraq alone has suffered an estimated 200,000 civilian casualties in a decade. Keep in mind the estimated population of Iraq in 2003 was also a tenth of America's, so try to imagine that happening here... except it's closer to 2,000,000.

The worst part is almost all this killing is done without a formal declaration of war, which is why Afghanistan is America's longest war. Ever. Not WW1, WW2, Vietnam... Afghanistan.

>it's another thread where posters don't know the difference between KIA and "casualty"

>>82797945
Getting your leg blown off in a 3rd world shithole is basically the same as death. More importantly: most of those guys just wanted the status quo maintained.

>>82797945
this.

90% casualty rate could literally mean 9 out of every 10 soldiers stubbed their toe on the way off the ramp.

>>82792999
Im muslim

>>82797862
surely nam went on longer

>>82798942
well no, since stubbing your toe doesn't remove you from action and therefore does not make you a casualty

i think the casualty to death ratio in WW2 was about 40% or so

>>82796221
Convenient. And (((they))) say that's where the evil nazis mowed down billions of brave american saviors?

>>82799040
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-longest-war-in-american-history-has-no-end-in-sight/

>>82794663
hence why the front is called the murderhole.