Exercise Tiger
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gafinfansubscriberOPA blueprint in disaster that happens all to often in the military .... even today.
This is the only thing I’ve learned: There’s only us. There’s no them. Despots and authoritarians need to make a “them” to have a straw man whom you are against. If you need to make an enemy of “them,” you’ve lost the spirit of us. - Ken Burns of PBS
OhiophinphanmoderatorThe loss of the LST's nearly derailed the D-Day invasion plans. The numbers were so marginal regarding the ability to carry sufficient tons of resupply that thought was given to a postponement. When the moon/tides/etc. could not be reconciled and replacements were rushed in, the plans went forward.
Keep in mind the D-day invasion was happening at the same time as the invasion of the Mariannas in the Central Pacific and the fall of Rome in Italy. What an incredible industrial giant was the US in those days.
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Witness to the first ever practice of the Miami Dolphins, 1966.
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