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Tough guys would have gotten more soldiers killed over dumb and arbitrary tests of toughness.
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I'm getting irrationally irate because of how stupid this is. Bad weather for an amphibious assault can cause you to lose your entire army.
Like obviously this poster wasn't thinking about this literally. But if my commanding officer said that I would consider it my responsibility to frag him.
Yeah and it was literally postponed several times due to weather. This isn't some shit you just tough out.
They couldn't even get planes off the ground because there was zero visibility. And when the weather cleared up, planes still ended up wildly off-course to the point it ended up being a case study of a botched attack.
Yeah Market Garden turned into an absolute shitshow.
IIRC Market Garden was more due to the lack of supplies to reinforce paratroopers after they dropped, so they ended up having to retreat instead of pushing forward.
(D-Day was Operation Overlord)
Right but they happened simultaneously more or less
Market Garden was in the Netherlands after Operation Overlord, which was the invasion of occupied France. It was a few months later. If you're thinking of the Airborne landings in Normandy as part of Overlord, that also had its own fair share if screw ups.
Tens of thousands of missed aircraft bombs from the looks of it