Stunning photos show sunken WWII British tanks that were the key to winning D-Day | Fox News

THEY WERE!

Thank you my friend CW5 Jack Cardwell for sharing pictures of the tanks that were tested during Operation Smash training exercise held on a Dorset beach in England under the cover of secrecy in April 1944, just weeks ahead of the Normandy landings.
The British Army and Canadian Army learned the lesson [and they used Landing Craft, Tank [LCT]s to get their tanks as close to shore as possible Juno and Gold Beaches ]
The US Army seemed to ignore the lesson [the US Navy released the tanks at 5 KMs out of the beach - only 2 out of 29 tanks made it ashore on Omaha Beach.]

"Well, 32 tanks were launched and seven sank, so that means 25 got to shore in this exercise and from that the British learned a lesson.
"So when the British and Canadians launched their tanks on D-Day, they didn't launch theirs offshore because it was too rough.
"Whereas the Americans launched theirs five kilometers offshore."
The result of the American decision is well-known - just two of the 29 tanks initially deployed to storm Omaha beach made it ashore.
Omaha would be the bloodiest of the D-Day beaches."
FYI Maj William W. 'Bill' Price Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown 1stSgt Eugene Harless CW5 John M. MSG Andrew White SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"SCPO Morris Ramsey SGT Michael Thorin SGT (Join to see) SGT Robert George SGT John " Mac " McConnell SP5 Mark Kuzinski SP5 Robert Ruck SPC Margaret Higgins Maj Marty Hogan SSgt Brian Brakke Sgt Arthur Caesar SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL

Fascinating. Walked that beach with a troop of boy scouts.