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...made it a natural killing ground. But even so, the lack of foresight seems breathtaking. Bombers were supposed to have softened up the German defenses, but they released their payloads too late - they were worried about hitting the landing parties - and missed the bunkers completely. Rockets were supposed to pound the beach from offshore, but they fell short. The German defenses were practically untouched. "All it's done is wake them up!" one officer remarked. That the assault on Omaha succeeded is due partly to shelling from nearby destroyers but mostly to the courage and determination of the infantry. That...
...long as President Obama is unwilling to countenance a withdrawal in defeat, he may be tempted by the logic of an old British idiom on the metric of risk: "In for a penny, in for a pound...
Imagine playing Kill the Carrier on an open field. Now imagine playing it with 300-pound men. And you have the ball...
Imagine playing Kill the Carrier on an open field. Now imagine playing it with 300-pound men. And you have the ball...
Watching from the sidelines, I didn’t have much hope for the Crimson’s three-peat bid for Ivy League champions. Sure, Collier was fast, but the 5’11, 190-pound quarterback was built more like his coalition of sturdy running backs—Gino Gordon, Treavor Scales and Cheng Ho all clock in around 5’10, 190 lbs—than the 6’5 Pizzotti...