I agree with you 100% Marz!! And the best place for folks to start getting some historical truth is by reading “The People’s History Of The United States” by Howard Zinn. It may not address your issues with FDR and the conduct of WWII but it certainly clears the air on most of the rest of the BS we’ve been fed and is a great place to begin one’s re-education. Great suggestion Marz!!!
Good start!
I find you need to read several accounts and then you begin to see or sense the inconsistencies. Maybe even errors that can be corrected piecing together the correct story. Also errors judgment by the makers of History can be detected this way.
As an example, Eisenhower's plan for the invasion of Normandy was really bad in that it got 10 thousand men killed right on the beach. Well you know it is not really fair to blame Ike! Hell he was the Supreme Commander faced with tough job. Therefore history as we know it gives him a pass, because the objective was reached and the winners story is always good.
Yes but very costly! When you look at what happened, it was planned by the Armies of the allies. The Navies were relegated primarily to logistical support, other than some long range in effective bombardment support.
The slaughter on the beach exacerbated by the inability to get off the beach, was a horrific blunder and should have been anticipated by the planners. Perhaps it was to some extent in that they were floating tanks ashore to spearhead the attack, but they all sank!
Now you have to stop reading at this point and consider what the hell is going on here. The army planning the amphibious assault with the land warfare planners! They did not do this in the Pacific. So what is different. The plan to use fuck floating tanks to get the guy off the beach is mind boggling!
These guys doing the planning did not know about the primary weapons systems that would enable the guys to get off the damn beach. Better yet enable them to get on the damn beach. That weapon is a gun platform that can delivery direct fire on the defending gun emplacements, primarily the MG62
positions on the ridges overlooking the beaches. I mean dammit, you drop the front door on a Higgins boat and everyone inside is killed in a hail of fire in a heart beat. That is a dumb ass plan.
The weapons that could and finally did counter these killer defensive positions were the US Navy destroyers with a Mark 37 fire control system that can deliver direct fire support with 5" guns very very effectively. A couple of these ships that had been assigned to guarding the supply ships finally did go in
the shallow waters off Omaha beach, using the 5" guns and did open up a pathway for the guys to get off the beach. But not until 10 thousand lay dead.
Man they should have been there right at the get go, taking out those MG positions. From a range of 3 to 4 thousand yard, viewing those defensive positions, the Fire Controlman can see if you shaved this morning! Oh well don't matter anyway, bye bye!
So you see the planning staff was not broad enough to bring the full capability, in their possession, to bare on the assault. You can't blame anyone but Ike! Well maybe you can blame the Admirals that did participate for not speak up. Perhaps they did and were cut off. Then again, perhaps they did not know either, which is another Chapter of History for another day.
