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92 - D-Day: Omaha

The WW2 Podcast

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The Story of the Tanks Sinking

Some of the decisions taken were not backed up with a lot of sensible seamanship and some of them launched knowing that their tanks would have literally no hope of surviving. These bucket really isn't it and held together by canvas and straps so it must have been pretty uninspiring to watch all these straps suddenly snapping under the impact of the waves. They lost about one or two crew members per tank that went down which is just it's just frightening i mean if we if we go it's west isn't it ponderhock where the rangers the rangers land now from the start they're actually this is was always going to be an assault up a cliff race is that have i got that

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