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D Day Invasion: Would you rather be airborne or seaborne? (Edited)
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:45 am
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:45 am
Scruffy was rewatching Band of Brothers yesterday. Great fricking show.
Question is, would you rather be a part of the airborne parachute assault or the marine landing assault?
There was a total of ~2500 airborne casualties and 10,000+ casualties involved with the landings.
Now, for reference, there were 13,000 paratroopers and ~156,000 soldiers landing on the beaches.
Pretty sure those numbers are right.
So, which invasion tactic would you rather be a part of?
Question is, would you rather be a part of the airborne parachute assault or the marine landing assault?
There was a total of ~2500 airborne casualties and 10,000+ casualties involved with the landings.
Now, for reference, there were 13,000 paratroopers and ~156,000 soldiers landing on the beaches.
Pretty sure those numbers are right.
So, which invasion tactic would you rather be a part of?
This post was edited on 5/14/21 at 10:54 am
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Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:45 am to Scruffy
Airborne baw
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:46 am to Scruffy
quote:
Question is, would you rather be a part of the airborne parachute assault or the marine landing assault?
Id rather get shot fighting than wading through waist deep water or barbwire so I'll go airborn
But the real answer is I'd rather be in the navy blasting shells at the pill boxes
This post was edited on 5/14/21 at 9:47 am
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:46 am to Scruffy
Looks like you have a better chance of surviving the landings, I'll go with that choice
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:46 am to Scruffy
1/15 chance of dying vs 1/5... Give me the 1/15
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:46 am to Scruffy
Not knowing the numbers, I would have said airborne in a second, just the visions of troops not making it out of the landing craft run through my head, getting mowed down.
I wonder what the numbers are regarding first waves versus 2nd, 3rd etc
I wonder what the numbers are regarding first waves versus 2nd, 3rd etc
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:46 am to Scruffy
What a shite sandwich of a choice. Get blasted out of the sky and scattered behind enemy lines or get mowed down on a beach before you can even fire at the enemy. Incredible what those guys did. 
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:47 am to Scruffy
we may have been better off had the japs took over our country.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:47 am to Scruffy
The thought of running up that beach into that kind of fire. Airborne.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:47 am to Scruffy
Marine
I think most marines walked onto the beaches without much resistance.
Some stretches the bombing didnt clear the defenses well, thats where you get saving private ryan shite
I think most marines walked onto the beaches without much resistance.
Some stretches the bombing didnt clear the defenses well, thats where you get saving private ryan shite
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:48 am to Scruffy
I don’t think any Marines landed on the beaches on D-Day
This post was edited on 5/14/21 at 9:49 am
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:48 am to Scruffy
Some of the beach landings were relatively low casualty. See Utah Beach. The bad spots in Omaha were horrendous though.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:48 am to Cosmo
pretty sure the airborne had by far the highest casualty rate of the entire army during the european war
would definitely rather be one of the infantry landing on the beach
would definitely rather be one of the infantry landing on the beach
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:49 am to ell_13
quote:That really doesn’t make either choice appetizing.
1/15 chance of dying vs 1/5... Give me the 1/15
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:49 am to JiminyCricket
quote:
Get blasted out of the sky and scattered behind enemy lines
I don't think hardly any, if at all, got blasted out of the sky, but I'm not an expert. But they did have to fight tanks with rifles
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:50 am to rmnldr
quote:Meant as a reference to tactic, not group.
don’t think any Marines landed on the beaches on D-Day
Couldn’t think of a better way to phrase it.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:50 am to Scruffy
beach
not all of the beach landings were death sentences like Omaha
now if you told me I had to be the first wave at Omaha? frick
not all of the beach landings were death sentences like Omaha
now if you told me I had to be the first wave at Omaha? frick
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:50 am to Scruffy
Beach landing. That survival rate looks much better
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:50 am to Scruffy
Ohhh gotcha. Landing force maybe
This post was edited on 5/14/21 at 9:51 am
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:51 am to Salmon
quote:yea then im choosing airborne but thats pretty much the only circumstance
now if you told me I had to be the first wave at Omaha? frick
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