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One of the things the Navy failed to do was to bombard the beach with high explosive, high trajectory artillery to create "foxhole" like indentations in the beach so that the men had some shelter from the onslaught of direct fire. It was in the plan...but not implemented. The other tragedy created by the NAVY LST captains was that in their haste to get out of the range of direct fire, they off-loaded troop far too early dumping them in water far above their heads and causing them to drown. (sorry Skip)
Well, hopefully we Navy Gunners have made up for that tragedy.
Bill
GM, USN '87-'98
