Evening Gents,

I must say this is just my $0.02 but,

I believe that if the Panzers had reserved themselves near the beaches on D-DAY and I mean evenly dispersed across the area of the invasions front under the cover of camoflauge away from the U.S.A.A.F aerial reconnaissance aircraft they would have had a chance to turn the tide.

I say this one because I once talked to a GI veteran from the Omaha beach area and he was a part of the US 29th Inf. Div. he was in(I think) 410th or 141st AAA Bn. he came in on the first wave of landings. While their AAA guns were still on the water and he said that he was there until 8 a.m. on June 7th, 1944 and he said that the officers of infantry companies were coming around and commandereing soldiers from units like his and placing them in infantry units to refill their ranks after D-DAY and his commander told him to stay put because in 48 hours they were going to need all of them to get their guns off the LST's and such.

So, I mean if the panzers had hit to the second line type troops they'd have had a field day.

But this is just my opinion....

Regards,
MARNE

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"ROCK OF THE MARNE"
Sgt. James Dunigan III
Able Co., U.S. 30th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 3rd Infantry Division(Reenacted)