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What a silly gadget.

Also by the way the Normandy beaches were NOT fortified with bunkers very much at all (unlike what you might have seen in Saving Private Ryan), just trenches and sandbags. A large portion of Omaha beach casualties were inflicted by a single machine gun nest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Severloh



> Also by the way the Normandy beaches were NOT fortified with bunkers very much at all

I'm not sure if you mean there were not many bunkers or they weren't very good fortifications, but there are quite a few bunkers, for example: https://www.normandybunkers.com/bunker-sites


> Severloh's claim is not viewed as credible by either US or German historians


The article mentions speculation that the whole project may have been part of a larger ruse that the landing would be in a more fortified place.




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