Operation Overlord

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Originally Posted by Danzig

we went back to the yorktown while in charleston memorial day weekend. went thru the medal of honor museum located on the ship, and i found a mistake-i have mentioned i'm a history nerd/geek/what have you, right? but it's a very important mistake, so emailed them..



they had on the ww 1 timeline that we declared war on April 6, 1916. it stopped me dead in my tracks.

i'd like to go over there someday, and visit some of those places. patton's buried over there with some of his troops.

at any rate, the extensive planning and sheer logistical nightmare...i can't imagine how they ever managed to pull that all off, and keep the element of surprise. amazing!

Been to Charleston couple times...visited the waterfront but not the ship...

What you said in bold...always boggles the mind to think of all that...the element of surprse, remember a movie that was mostly about the methods used to throw the Germans off the track...some of that was covered in The Longest Day...