2nd Bat
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Post by 2nd Bat on Mar 29, 2006 0:10:38 GMT -5
This new information and discovery is quite remarkable and certainly going to stir up some commonly held beliefs about Normandy Facinating information www.armourer.co.uk/maisybattery.htmCompletely new to me.
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Post by mauser98k on Mar 29, 2006 0:18:56 GMT -5
Very fascinating and new to me too! I wonder how it came to be under farmland, lol!
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2nd Bat
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Post by 2nd Bat on Mar 29, 2006 0:46:33 GMT -5
I could see it if it was a fairly small complex or if the significance of it in the battle was trivial but the complex is huge and the battle to take the battery was quite bloody and involved. Clearly the powers that be wanted to Cover their Ass by literally sweeping it under the...well farmland.
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Post by Rainer Schmidt on Mar 29, 2006 1:35:42 GMT -5
Amazing.
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silencer
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Post by silencer on Mar 29, 2006 8:52:41 GMT -5
Wow, that is truly incredible. He says that pointe du hoc could have been a bluff!
"After three years of research Gary believes that he may have the answer: the huge casemated guns at Pointe du Hoc were an elaborate bluff – the gun barrels pointing from the concrete bunkers were telegraph poles - a 'ruse de guerre' by Rommel to distract the Allies who diverted men and bombing raids to destroying it."
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