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Re:D-Day: How a British Oceanographer's Invention Decided No... by tntn on Thursday June 07, 2018 @12:16PM (#17257210)
The typical number for German combatants is closer to 50k, so I'm curious what your source is for 5k.
Re:D-Day: How a British Oceanographer's Invention Decided No... by paidleaf on Sunday June 10, 2018 @10:20AM (#17278228)
That's for the overall invasion that spanned more than a month ( AKA germans defending half of france ). I'm talking about D-Day ( 1 day ) incident where hardly any fighting took place.

It was impossible for 50K german soldiers to defend the beaches because germany had no air force and no navy to protect them. The allied navy and air force pretty much cleared out the beaches and the germans had moved most of their forces to the east. Only a skeletal force of a few thousand were left to defend the beaches.

Re:D-Day: How a British Oceanographer's Invention Decided No... by gandhium on Thursday June 07, 2018 @01:29PM (#17258074)
He also said "real fighting was in the east", so you can guess the source.

Edit: also the claim "most of our casualties on that day was friendly fire and accidental drowning" is pretty ridiculous.

Re:D-Day: How a British Oceanographer's Invention Decided No... by paidleaf on Sunday June 10, 2018 @11:34AM (#17278570)
> He also said "real fighting was in the east", so you can guess the source.

It's called stats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)

The vast majority of the german military and casualties, were in the eastern front.

> Edit: also the claim "most of our casualties on that day was friendly fire and accidental drowning" is pretty ridiculous.

It's pretty much common sense. Considering the low number of german troops, the poor coordination on our side and of course the odds of accidents and friendly fire incidents. It's pretty much a statistical certainty that most of the deaths on D-Day were accidents and friendly fire. But lets throw out common sense and statistics out the window.

The germans had no navy. They had no air force. They had nothing. Against the might of the US and British power on D-Day. But we can pretend that the germans managed a 2 to 1 casualty victory. Or I'm sure that's what your "sources" will try to convince us.