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The 116 Regimental Combat Team that led the assault onto Dog Green at Omaha was told there would be bomb craters for cover, same with 4th Infantry on Utah beach. Guys I interviewed said they eventually came to them behind the German shore defenses, bombers overshot the beaches. The 9th Air Force...

Here's another thing the guys from the 29th Infantry told me - the Germans had smokeless powder (they bought the patent from Winchester in the 1930s). So when they'd open up from a well-concealed spot on the hedgerow line, they were hard to see. As soon as Americans returned fire the Germans...

Most historians feel it would have taken a year to mount another assault, but we would still have won (In hindsight, we did beat the Germans to the A-Bomb which was our Ace in the hole). You have to consider that by mid-1944 the best German fighting divisions had been bled-out in fierce fighting...