![]() ![]() ![]() It smells like concentrated bathroom cleaner and laundry soap. There's even one time when this girl was spraying some stuff around in class, and it smelled exactly like human feces. :(Įxcuse me? I am a girl and this is just plain insulting. In fact, it's the boys who smell like B.O, sweat, and other gross things all day. 48 Map "D-day assault routes into Normandy".Ĥ3 We Should Have a In Popular Culture Section.31 D-Day was not even put "on this day".I'm going to remix this list and put boys on top. ![]() 61 Potentially confusing semantics between "Weather" section re: tidal conditions and other references (cf.62 Request to change the positions of the US and the UK in the infobox.68 The weather reports that gave the Green light to go?.71 Rape allegations - inadequate sources.72 Conflicting information about the tides on the day of the invasion.75 Coordination with the French Resistance.83 Can someone please add this to the article and infobox?.84 Composition of allied order of battleįirst, apologies for seeming to be an over-sensitive Brit.Second, in no way do I wish to minimise the courage and suffering of US forces in Europe. The actions at Omaha beach, St Lo, Bastogne, Eindhoven & Nijmegen, and elsewhere were outstandingly brave and determined. Particularly so on foreign ground.īUT (here goes), there is sensitivity in Europe, and not just in France, about the Second World War in Europe being given an all-American gloss (usually by Hollywood - John Wayne did it all?). So, although US troops and aircraft were desparately needed to bolster the failing British manpower reserves, at Normandy it was actually the Royal Navy (British, not English, please note) that took the lead in providing naval support. To list the relatively few US ships (I'm sure there were more than these) that were involved without a similar reference to other nations, apart from the "English" navy, rubs some of us up the wrong way. It also overlooks contributions from the Free French and Norwegian navies, and probably others. I won't delete the list of US ships - that would be disrespectful, I may add to it. I hope that I've not caused offence, but I do feel lots better for that rant.įolks at 137 23:04, 5 November 2005 (UTC) Reply This point is well-taken, but the role of the US Navy in Overlord was not quite as insignificant as implied here (the gunfire support to Utah and Omaha Beaches were by USN ships).Īnd I do know that the US Navy's focus was in the Pacific. And John Wayne, except for portraying a real-life soldier in The Longest Day, never appeared in any war movie involving the war in Europe, so that's a straw dog. That said, the roles of the RN and other navies needs to be documented accurately because they did provide the lion's share of escort and support-Buckboard 05:34, 9 June 2007 (UTC). This needs to be merged into Battle of Normandy, since that article has changed from being about the entire campaign (Operation Overlord) to only being about the invasion phase (Operation Neptune). ![]()
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