re: A seriously underrated aspect of D-Day and the Allied offensive in France

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I have three words for you

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Supremacy

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If you've not read it, there is a great book called "D-day through German eyes". It's a transcript of interviews that were done in the 50's with Germans that were on the beach. I think they did one person per beach.

To a man they said they knew the war was as good as lost by the end of the day. The general sentiment was that there was no way to defeat an army that was so well equipped and in such abundance. What most people don't realize was that all during the war a large portion of the German army was still "horse drawn". They didn't have vehicles for everything like we did.

To your point, one of the Germans fell back to a strong hold in a manor. They started getting hammered by rocket fire from P-47's. The German thought, this will let up in a minute. They got hit by sortie after sortie for 4 solid hours. He knew at the point it was over for Germany.