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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
5th Rangers were there as well, they landed at Omaha beach Dog Green sector instead of at Pointe Du Hoc as reinforcements for the 2nd as was planned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_Assault_Group
(I called the Ranger units Divisions by mistake, My bad.) |
I had to pick on you a little for the division thing my father was a Ranger in Vietnam.
You are right about the 5th Rangers at D-Day I forgot about them.I recon that when Spielberg wrote "Saving Private Ryan" he picked that unit because they where really at Omaha Beach and where an elite unit about the only believable part in that entire movie.
Point Du Hoc was impressive but I would rate the POW Recuse/raid on Cabanatuan in the Philippines as their most impressive action of WWII only a handful of Ranger KIA in exchange for a great deal of IJA dead and a lot of freed POWs that surely would have been executed.Of course the Alamo Scouts also where involved in that operation.