IIRC Omaha Beach was nastier than it had to be for the assaulting troops (not nasty enough for the defenders); the planners thought the naval gun support too light and not all of the planned bombing runs were executed to full effect.
I can’t really fault a war photographer for not being in the thick of the first wave to shore at Omaha Beach; he was there to tell a story and I’m personally happy to cut him a lot of slack for just showing up.
Allied casualties at Juno and Utah Beaches were much lower…
Belgium to return tooth of assassinated Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba to family
I remember seeing John Stockwell speak in college. This would’ve been roughly 1986. He spoke of many things but I remember his concern with using assets and then leaving them to fend for themselves. It greatly bothered him. I always felt that the movie Spy Game tapped into his writings.
The Battle of Britain couldn’t have been won without UK’s homegrown tech innovations
https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/16/battle_of_britain_80th_anniversary/
Technology played its part, mostly behind the scenes – yes, we mean the backroom boffins – in equipping Britain to hold firm and defeat the Germans. As today’s commemorations focus on the pilots and ground crew who saw off the Luftwaffe, spare a thought for the technologists whose efforts also saved the western world.
Tangent:
He is best known for having designed pictograms for the 1972 Summer Olympics
Friedberg had the same lights up when I was there last year.
