re: #520 Steffan

Well, on Omaha Beach, they ran into a buzzsaw. That buzzsaw was mostly solved by Stormin’ Norman Cota, CO of the 29th Infantry Division.

Utah Beach…. the 4th Infantry Division didn’t land where they expected, and BG Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (who won a posthumous MoH) decided to start the invasion from where they landed. It was posthumous only because he suffered a fatal heart attack later that month. He is one of the very few sons who won an MoH of a father who also won an MoH. IIRC, the only other pair is Arthur McArthur and Douglas McArthur.

For Sword, Juno and Gold beaches, they ran into what they were expecting. The only problem there was that Montgomery was supposed to take Caen right pronto, and didn’t.

Reagan at Point du Hoc.

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