Wading in waist high water with machine guns firing at ya. Crazy.
I wonder what wave this was
Dudes look so helpless. Machine guns blazing at them and they’re just meandering through some water. It must have felt like one of those nightmares where nothing you ever do works.
Wish there were more footage of D-Day but i heard that all the recordings of the battle were put in a ship that lost it dont know if it is true
They used smoke at least.
Only a few years too late but good on them
why did the la ding craft have to stop so far from the shore? there is simply no fast way to walk through water and im sure many men died because of it, maybe underwater obstacles?
Hey, my grandparents at the beach!
I think dude on the left (middle of the picture) is hit. He moves when being shot the moment a bullet hits the water behind him (maybe the one who first passed him).
In an audiobook about D-Day there was an account of the first guy off his landing craft making it to the beach before looking back and finding himself all alone, none of the others made it.
It pales in comparison to the meat Grinder russians.
Miss you gramps
I read that one MG-42 gunner fired >20k rounds from the bluffs above.
Why do I just assume the same 30 seconds voice is in every Higgins boat?
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Wading in waist high water with machine guns firing at ya. Crazy.
I wonder what wave this was
Dudes look so helpless. Machine guns blazing at them and they’re just meandering through some water. It must have felt like one of those nightmares where nothing you ever do works.
Wish there were more footage of D-Day but i heard that all the recordings of the battle were put in a ship that lost it dont know if it is true
They used smoke at least.
Only a few years too late but good on them
why did the la ding craft have to stop so far from the shore? there is simply no fast way to walk through water and im sure many men died because of it, maybe underwater obstacles?
Hey, my grandparents at the beach!
I think dude on the left (middle of the picture) is hit. He moves when being shot the moment a bullet hits the water behind him (maybe the one who first passed him).
In an audiobook about D-Day there was an account of the first guy off his landing craft making it to the beach before looking back and finding himself all alone, none of the others made it.
It pales in comparison to the meat Grinder russians.
Miss you gramps
I read that one MG-42 gunner fired >20k rounds from the bluffs above.
Why do I just assume the same 30 seconds voice is in every Higgins boat?
That video is cropped
There is a wider angle at 1:26 on this video. This one was ai colourized but I’m sure the original b&w is on youtube as well https://youtu.be/svXhOsBKvco?si=EJlJaGA1pRote47w&t=86
An official archived version probably at https://www.archives.gov/research/motion-pictures/ww2 – lots of great stuff there