More D-day Info.
<div class="IPBDescription">Britteh time.</div> Meh, bored again. I have just finished reading Stephen Ambrose's D-DAY and begun on his Citizen Soldiers. Cit Sold is sortaof a sequel to D-DAY. It tells the stories of the American, British, and Canadian armies who moved out from the beaches onward. There are quite a few amazing stories in here.
British
When the British hit Sword and Gold, they encountered no resistance, a little mabey. They moved inland, to encounter Germans in bunkers and vacation houses. An American observer was amazed when a wistle blew, and all the soldiers stopped fighting, dug a hole, sat down in it, and began to brew tea. "The British cant fight for more than half an hour without having tea-time!" He said in an stunned voice.
British 105mm Howitzer Crew #12
The recieved instructions to fire at a battery of German guns in Caen, one of the British objectves for that day. The guns were sitting in one of Caens courtyards. The 105 fired. Many people can only guess at what happend, but its a good dam guess on the information recieved, considering that there were no german survivors on the battery. It seems the British shell, landed smak down the barrle of the gun, bouncing off the breach loading door, and slamming strait into a pile of ammunition. Ka-bewm.
Days later, a few germans reported an old man and his blind son walking around the cannon. They gave them no thought, but later, they found out he was marking paces for cannon fire.
Air support.
The germans had none, the Americans and British ruled the sky. One german said. "If the sky was blue, it was the British, if it was silver, it was the Americans, if it was clear, it was ours. Another reported "Yes, I saw the Lufttafa(spelling), it was 17,00 p38's."
The p38's ruled the air. It was even increased by ground to air communication by radios. Germans could not fire a single gun without fear of a p38 coming in with a vengance. The pilots were 19, young. The airforce thought after 21, the p38 pilots had to resign, they wouldnt pull the kind of stunts they did to save lives anymore.
Ocasionally, a flight of one or two German bf-109's came over the landing sights. Every dam ship in the entire area lit up on them. They escaped to, Allied guners were ashamed at themselfs. The german pilots said "they sky was gold with tracers, I dont know how I cam through alive!"
British
When the British hit Sword and Gold, they encountered no resistance, a little mabey. They moved inland, to encounter Germans in bunkers and vacation houses. An American observer was amazed when a wistle blew, and all the soldiers stopped fighting, dug a hole, sat down in it, and began to brew tea. "The British cant fight for more than half an hour without having tea-time!" He said in an stunned voice.
British 105mm Howitzer Crew #12
The recieved instructions to fire at a battery of German guns in Caen, one of the British objectves for that day. The guns were sitting in one of Caens courtyards. The 105 fired. Many people can only guess at what happend, but its a good dam guess on the information recieved, considering that there were no german survivors on the battery. It seems the British shell, landed smak down the barrle of the gun, bouncing off the breach loading door, and slamming strait into a pile of ammunition. Ka-bewm.
Days later, a few germans reported an old man and his blind son walking around the cannon. They gave them no thought, but later, they found out he was marking paces for cannon fire.
Air support.
The germans had none, the Americans and British ruled the sky. One german said. "If the sky was blue, it was the British, if it was silver, it was the Americans, if it was clear, it was ours. Another reported "Yes, I saw the Lufttafa(spelling), it was 17,00 p38's."
The p38's ruled the air. It was even increased by ground to air communication by radios. Germans could not fire a single gun without fear of a p38 coming in with a vengance. The pilots were 19, young. The airforce thought after 21, the p38 pilots had to resign, they wouldnt pull the kind of stunts they did to save lives anymore.
Ocasionally, a flight of one or two German bf-109's came over the landing sights. Every dam ship in the entire area lit up on them. They escaped to, Allied guners were ashamed at themselfs. The german pilots said "they sky was gold with tracers, I dont know how I cam through alive!"
Comments
Good book.