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re: Normandy- Omaha Beach question
Posted on 6/7/14 at 6:26 pm to FootballNostradamus
Posted on 6/7/14 at 6:26 pm to FootballNostradamus
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and their increased accuracy is one of the reasons we turned the tide against the Japs in the Battle of the Leyte Gulf), but they were in no way shape or form accurate enough at the time.
How long after Normandy was Leyte Gulf?
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Posted on 6/7/14 at 7:08 pm to FightinTigersDammit
Months.
He's is right about the accuracy of guns at the time being an issue of naval artillery support on D day, but wrong about technology suddenly resolving them for Pacific theater battles.
The weather is notoriously bad in that part of the ocean.
And it was particularly bad on D-day. (remember the vomiting in the landing boats on Saving Private Ryan?)
Shortly before the invasion (I think as late as June 4th), German meteorologists said that the weather was so bad that they felt invasion was impossible for at least 2 weeks.
Long range guns could not target bunkers without fear of hitting their troops in the rolling seas.
That was the big significance of the destroyers getting so close to shore: it allows them to switch to direct-fire aiming and marginalized the effect of rolling seas.
He's is right about the accuracy of guns at the time being an issue of naval artillery support on D day, but wrong about technology suddenly resolving them for Pacific theater battles.
The weather is notoriously bad in that part of the ocean.
And it was particularly bad on D-day. (remember the vomiting in the landing boats on Saving Private Ryan?)
Shortly before the invasion (I think as late as June 4th), German meteorologists said that the weather was so bad that they felt invasion was impossible for at least 2 weeks.
Long range guns could not target bunkers without fear of hitting their troops in the rolling seas.
That was the big significance of the destroyers getting so close to shore: it allows them to switch to direct-fire aiming and marginalized the effect of rolling seas.
This post was edited on 6/7/14 at 7:09 pm
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