Posted on May 26, 2019
Battlegroup Rauch - The German D-Day Counterattack, 6 June 1944
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D-Day
WWII World War Two
Military History
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TSgt Joe C. PO3 Steven Sherrill CW3 Kevin Storm SSG (Join to see) SGM Steve Wettstein SMSgt Thor Merich MSG (Join to see) PO1 John Johnson MAJ Ken Landgren LTC Greg Henning PVT Mark Zehner MSG Tom Earley Alan K. SPC Mark Huddleston PO1 H Gene Lawrence SGT Elizabeth Scheck Sgt Deborah Cornatzer SSgt Boyd Herrst SPC Diana D. SFC George Smith
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Sometimes Hitler's centralized planning negated field commanders' flexibility on COAs.
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PO3 Donald Murphy
They embarrassed him (Stalingrad) and he didn't trust them for that. So he put leashes on them. Only the SS were allowed freedom of movement. Rommel/Rundstedt had enough tanks that if they would have counterattacked the moment they heard gunfire, they'd have slaughtered the allies. Granted, by sunlight the air umbrella would have obliterated German armor but the damage by that time would already be done.
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I believe we did not give enough credit to our bombers and fighters on their tactical runs. It was also said that the German machine gunners at the beaches ran out of ammo or their barrels got to hot.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
You are correct. D-Day was a very complex operation. Off the top of my head I would list hundreds of ships, landing crafts, thousands of men, supporting fires, multiple objectives, supplies, equipment, vehicles, maneuvering against a well fortified enemy. This is just the tip of the ice berg. PO3 Donald Murphy
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