Normandy Combatives MMA Shirt
Bullets whistled overhead and men around him were being wounded and killed as Private G stepped off of his landing craft and into the murky waters. Unable to swim, loaded with pack, weapon and ammo, he found himself sinking into the deep water. They had misjudged the depth. Struggle as he might to get to the surface, he knew he was done for. Briefly, through the fear of drowing, Private G thought about the irony of the situation - that he would die not from the bullets coming in, but by simple drowning.
Suddenly a hand reached to him and pulled him to shore. It was his battle buddy. Wasting no time for celebration, the two men fought up the beach...
That's a true story imparted to me by one of my buddy's fathers. It gives a pretty phenomenal account of the chaos of a beach landing during WWII.
Normandy has become synonymous with the Allied Victory in WWII, and with good reason. At the time of the invasion, no one had successfully seized the shores there in
nine centuries, and certainly no one, at any time, had provided the level of fortification supplied by the Germans.
Beginning with night parachute and glider landings, the attack, which was the largest naval battle ever at the time, began in full force on 6 June, 1944. It involved over 156,000 troops from the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Free France traveling in 4,100 troop carriers. Orchestrated by General Eisenhower, it is widely considered one of the gutsiest and most decisive moves in military history.
The Allied Forces bravely fought for every inch of ground over the course of a battle that saw over 10,000 casualties. The end result, however, was the virtual annihalation of German control in France, and the first true belief that the German War Machine could be defeated.
We owe these men everything.
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