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Why didn’t they just used shields?
Asher Jenkins
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Asher Clark
I wondered that too.
Can't be that hard to make a thick door-like shield that 2 men carry and hide behind
Carson Martin
bombs were a thing
James Price
Because grenades and mortars are a thing.
Jaxson Bennett
Why didn't they just bring the boats around so they could attack the nazis in the back lmao soldiers were so stupid back then
Jackson Hall
The kind of shield that could block a bullet would be so heavy humans wouldn't be able to carry it. You'd need to attach it to wheels to roll it around. Then, because uneven ground makes it hard to push things with wheels, you'd need to replace the wheels with treads. Then, because you'd still get tired pushing something, you'd want to add an engine to do the pushing for you. Also you'd still be vulnerable from the top, sides, and behind, so you'd need to put shields there as well. And since you'd already have an engine, it probably wouldn't hurt to add some extra guns to your shield since at that point weight wouldn't matter. Then, to save money, it'd be easier to scale up the shield so that it could block half a dozen people at once. At this point you'd realize you just invented the tank.
Henry Bell
Why didn't they just join the nazis to kill the brits and slavs
Wyatt Martinez
Why didn't they just make sandcastles and get some ice cream
Caleb Martin
make love not war
Henry Gomez
They couldn't land on the beaches directly, they all had to wade through water that was slightly higher that their waist. Dragging a shield thick enough to stop rifle and machine gun through that would be impossible.
Josiah Miller
What must have been going through actual soldiers minds when they hit the beach and realized that they're basically in meat grinder. Not too mention the boat ride there.
Hunter Hughes
Duality of man dude
Samuel Gutierrez
Why didn't they just take their guns and tell the fat cats in Washington to go get rekt themselves instead
Brayden Sanders
Why didn't the feminists sign up to run at bullets
Aiden Morris
beforehand disassociation, most of them would be completely incapable of imaging what was about to happen
on the beach pure instinct takes over
Connor Wood
Why didn't they use plasma rifles in the 40 watt range?
Tyler Hill
God dammit user you were supposed to say something funny. Now those digits have been wasted.
Andrew Rodriguez
Digits from hell describing hell
Caleb Turner
quints of hell
Zachary Flores
Scared to death, but calmed by the knowledge they were fighting to protect a man’s right to cut his dick off and use women’s locker rooms.
Joshua Thomas
My Grandfather on my Dads side came in a later wave. He died before I ever got to know him, soon after I was born. From what I understand, he said that he initially thought we had lost and the invasian was a failure, judging by the numerous bodies visible from even far offshore. Eventually he was tasked with helping move bodies for a while so he never really like to talk about it.
Lucas Davis
Or just pop some smoke?
Jackson Morgan
I alway forget that Vin DIesel is in it
Chase Johnson
The Shields wouldnt have stopped the water snakes Hitler tactically placed on the beach
Oliver Stewart
Is it true that the first on shore didn't actually fire at the Germans because they thought they wouldn't have to kill to win the war, or was Lt. Fick spouting shit.
Isaiah Long
I dunno sounds weird since Germans were already fighting the allies.
Nathaniel Long
CAPARZO STAY DOOOWN!
CAN YOU SEE HIM CAPTAIN? HOW IS HE?!
Fucken Wade
Austin Perry
>Normandy Operation was in actuality a crushing defeat for Germans and the Allies experienced almost no opposition in the initial landings beyond Omaha
wtf Yea Forums lied to me!
Xavier Sullivan
this
Caleb Lopez
Why didn't they get the eagles to fly them to Berlin
Benjamin Murphy
Well what do you think? A couple of bunkers and machine gun nests, halfway through 1944. The US never fought an even battle on the western front, outside of maybe parts of the Italy campaign. Over 80% of German military casualties happened on the eastern front. D-day, battle of the bulge etc. are a joke compared to what happened there.
Adam Russell
Not much. Here is a redpill for you, Omaha was a one off. Firstly, the British beaches (3 of 5) used Hobart's Funnies to their fullest. This resulted in the ease of the beaches being captured and the breakout forces getting a move on. The Americans, in their infinite wisdom, decided AGAINST using Hobart's Funnies bar the tank floatation device. The issue was that the Americans were pushed off course by rough weather and landed on a much better defended section of beach. Instead of releasing their tanks nearer to the beach they released them too early and all but two sank. Had the Americans used the other funniest (minefield clearer, barbed wire clearer, flamethrower tank etc) as they should have been used, it wouldn't have been a problem even in the bad position they landed in. The rest of the beaches had little to no problem breaking through. The British deception plans, double agents and special force attacks resulted in the counter-attack being delayed for longer than they had even hoped for.
Furthermore, American naval bombardments they performed to create cover for landing troops fucked up and most missed. Omaha was a result of arrogant American leaders treating this was fun and games (much like they did during the training) and as a result got punished for it. If it wasn't for the other beaches pressuring Omaha's flanks they'd have been trapped there for much longer. D-Day was not a massive meat grinder and outside of Omaha was actually surprisingly light in causalities. If you want an actual meat grinder then Stalingrad or Kursk is where you go.
This is incorrect as well. Omaha wasn't expected to be a resistance point, it was by pure bad luck and poor American planning. The issue was and always was going to be the eventual counter-attack but due to British work this was delayed by many hours longer than hoped for. The entire liberation of France is an example of overconfident, fresh faced Americans being dicks.
Ian Roberts
Why didn't they just parachuted behind the enemy and shoot them from behind?
Juan Gonzalez
>'tis the Americans whomstever art to blame!
stay ungrateful
stay toothless
stay muslim
Thomas Smith
Wouldn't work against a machine gun. It would just impede mobility. Which would further help machine guns.
Jonathan Kelly
Why did not they use sniber rifled to pew pew from far away the solder
Bentley Kelly
The US is 1% Muslim and growing. Where is your jesus now?
Angel Gonzalez
The french tried and it was stupid: en.wikipedia.org
Handheld shields would've been too heavy.
Gabriel Price
>carrying a thick dense shield through the sand
Brandon Perry
First of all, seek mental help. I'm deadly serious. Secondly, you're arguing with historical fact. The British attacked more beaches during D-Day than Americans and used the Funnies and had no issue breaking through. D-Day was literally impossible without the Mulberry Docks working as well. In this particular case, yes, the Americans were to blame. Utah didn't have a problem because it landed on target; Omaha didn't. Again, you're arguing with fucking historical fact. The fact you go off on /pol/ shit is you literally seething about how your media lies to you about historical events when America is involved. Much like the Revolutionary War; you're not taught that the French and Spanish had 70,000~ troops fighting for you on top of your own force which outnumbered the British and Prussian forces. It doesn't mention the fucking Dutch, French, Spanish, Mysore, Polish or Russian interference and help. Why would it? Your history is a propaganda machine, which is why Oklahoma wanted to ban historically accurate history if it 'put USA in a bad light'.
Next you'll argue that Operation Dragoon was somehow vitally necessary and there was totally millions of German troops in southern France that was vital to attack and that ignoring the Balkans for said operation and allowing the Soviet Union to invade Eastern Europe without opposition and form the USSR to a greater extent and the creation of the Cold War was a 'cost worth paying'. History doesn't give a shit about your feelings mate.
Josiah Price
>implying Islam is any match for Jewish degeneracy
Your kingdoms will burn
Mason Myers
Whats the problem??
Grayson Martinez
Based
Ethan Adams
>typing all this shit
nice landing fag
Joshua Thompson
The US is the land that welcomes every shitty creed. All serve Mamon.
Cooper Edwards
why didnt they just dig a tunnel to hitler's bunker and have roosevent fight him 1 on 1
Jonathan Foster
>History doesn't give a shit about your feelings mate.
You're right. The only one fucking seething over history is you. In 50 years you fucking pom faggots will have nothing to gloat about, only reminisce. Good fucking riddance you cunt
Jaxon Roberts
>The only one fucking seething over history is you
He is seething because you guys propagate lies
Caleb Peterson
>"mein fuhrer, you haf received ein telegram"
>"read it"
>"you and me 1v1 bitch"
Joshua Cooper
Aaron Perry
How the fuck is a huge shield gonna LOWER your chance of surviving a grenade blast
Brandon Ramirez
>completely ignores utah
Kayden Richardson
Love is war
Dylan Parker
The British empire is a fucking blight on mankind. And you cocksucking faggots, you multi generational born and bred for the purpose of sucking monarch cock utter fucking plebs love to shift blame to the US at any opportunity. Go fuck yourself I will kick back and enjoy watching your nation go to shit. Tell me more about ww2 you fucking shitcunt as if I give a fuck
Logan Watson
>run-on sentences
...yikes
Jace Flores
Well compared to dying in the sand...
Adrian Jones
You're actually mad lmao holy shit calm down bro.
Zachary Torres
Not him, but you would be slow as fuck in the sand with a heavy shield. I'm pretty sure they thought about all these things when it happened in real life.
Bentley Edwards
Tell me to fuckin calm down cunt I will stab you
Evan Walker
Why were Americans fighting Europe's wars for them?
Jace Sanchez
big brain brad
Ryder Jenkins
why didnt they just not land at a beach that had tons of turrets and shit on it
Hudson Price
because people weren't really onboard with the whole "exterminate the Poles" thing
Andrew Price
Why waste money on tanks when you can just send thousands of goyim to die for you?
Charles Green
"Dude, why didn't they give us shields bro?"
Michael Perez
>What must have been going through actual soldiers minds when they hit the beach
We must secure the existence of Israel and a future for Jewish children
Tyler Hall
the germans declared war on them because muh axis alliance
Jack Wilson
They caught wind that Germany was going to start shit with the US when they intercepted the telegraph they sent to Mexico on them joining the axis.
Gavin Thompson
Because that's too expensive, basic infantry are never and were never ever taken even semi-seriously, that's the truth. The infantry are there to take the brunt of it cost effectively while the shit that matters (tanks and artillery) makes its way on the beach. That was the case even in medieval times. The tanks artillery and aircraft is where all the money is sunk into. Of course they aren't going to give the lowest common denominator expensive hard to make equipment to do basic jobs. They are brainwashed through bootcamp to advance under gunfire and take and hold positions after the aircraft and artillery has cleared everything out thinking they can actually deal damage, that's it. Most American troops were given alcohol in their rations and most were drunken poor uneducated folk too retarded to realize they were being sent into a meat grinder (the only people who the commanders knew wouldn't revolt if they were sent into a first wave invasion attack).
Money plays just as big a role in war as anything. Even today it has been shown that modern infantry (only elite special ops infantry are equipped like this anyway) can and do wear steel plates and sand bag protection armor that will stop heavy machine gun rounds. All modern infantry now is just a pointer for aircraft and artillery bombardment and now even they are totally mechanized or mechanized whenever possible as it's cost effective. It's just a matter of resource allocation and during WWII resource allocation was extremely tight so all they were given for protection was a super pathetically think steel cap that was a basic as fuck stamp to simply create the illusion that they were protected when in reality that shit was barely thin enough to stop a .22 from punching through it.
Jaxson Anderson
fucking Einstein over here
Anthony Price
That was WWI you retard
Leo Ross
What's this tank doing?
Connor Reed
They were under prepared because of the incompetence of their generals and bureaucracy
Jason Perry
Drowning in a tank must be fucking terrifying
Samuel Nelson
Use a shield
Oliver Evans
>abuurrr da Americans are poopy
yawn
Chase Scott
Check out the big brain on Brad!
Robert Green
Better question is why didn't battle ships just blast the shoreline from thousands of meters away?
Isaac Nelson
Bettter question why are Mutts so obsessed with a ethnic German supremacist movement from the 20s?
Levi Kelly
Why didn't Nazis put sharks in the water if they are so smart?
Ethan Hall
I for one am fully convinced by your clearly-educated knowledge of history.
Kevin Clark
>grenades and mortars are a thing
Couldn't they use a baseball bat and whack em back to them?
Jackson Thompson
why didn't they come around the back like wtf?!
Nicholas Garcia
how fucking old are you?
Adrian Nelson
same reason they didnt use them in the american revolution, stupidity
a roman legion could have taken a beach with minimal casualties
Colton Young
Cooper Bennett
It was about 2000 dead and they had secured the beach by the end of the day.
Operation Bodyguard deserves more respect
Xavier Williams
Adam Sanchez
this thread again?
Justin Price
It's much easier to carry shit in water than walk with it on a beach.
Wyatt Edwards
at least learn to speak english before you talk shit
Camden Reyes
The original "have sex" shit post
Nathan Anderson
t. nigger
William Edwards
Nah, it was bullet
Carter Bennett
Have sex
Aiden Davis
your country will be overun with niggers and spics before uk goes full caliphate but either way both countrys are doomed
Asher Rivera
Literally just follow the grenade indicator and press E to throw them back. Are you telling me boots on the ground can't figure that shit out?
Grayson Roberts
post bobs
Cameron Cook
Why didn't they just dig a tunnel to the other side of the bunkers?
Adrian Reyes
its a tank designed to make paths for more tanks.
try not to think too hard about it
Cooper Ramirez
Because riot shields weren't popular till MW2
Blake Rivera
a cinder block will stop 7.62
Kayden Richardson
Why didn't the 6 million Jews that died try to fight back or anything?
Alexander Brooks
Filled with concrete maybe. Hollow? Absolutely not.
Chase Clark
why europeans love to make wars so much???
Jack Roberts
the lust for blood is coded into the wh*temans dna
Nathan Gray
Sebastian Hernandez
How about something like 100 rounds at the rate of around 1000 rounds per minute?
Michael Miller
Why didnt they use battleships to blast the bunkers from far away
Evan Reyes
Kino post my fellow buddy friend
Samuel Ortiz
They did but you can't blast every single fortification on the entire coast and you're going to need to deploy somewhere.
Oliver Reyes
>that actually never happened
>they did
You have to admire all the brainlets here who believe they are smarter than millions of people before them
>but why didn't they just
>they could've just
>if only they remembered to
Aiden Garcia
Bullets?
Charles Martin
why did they trade american blood for chateau lafite rothschild?
Landon King
His grandpa could've just been really young. Like I'm 18 right now and my grandfather fought in WW2 on Iwo Jima at 18, which is insane to think about.
Brandon Stewart
Why didn't the airplanes just bomb the beach?
Easton Jackson
They did. It's called a creeping barrage, invented by Canadians in WWI.
Jason Adams
Americans are shit at war.
But keep believing Hollywood.
Ian Thomas
Try invading us and see what happens. Your shit would get pushed in at the speed of light.
John Collins
>war is defending an isolated continent
You lose against third-world shitholes.
Nolan James
>can't be rice farmers
Jaxson Martinez
Our airforce collapses governments in under
48 hours. Stay mad eurocucks, we're coming for you eventually.
Blake Adams
But in vietnam they didn't because........
excuses incoming.
Robert Rodriguez
>Heavy artillery enemies
>Shields
Get out
Jaxon Ross
they don't anymore since they overdid it the last couple of times
Asher Hall
I mean, seriously, would this really be stupid?
What if instead of just troops in the troop boats, they each had a perfectly fitting metal shield containing troops?
Or at least half of them, I mean. The other half have the normal troops as insurance in case these ones die from a smoke grenade.
Isaiah Fisher
pretty good
Brayden Parker
Yeah, name one. You're still in Iraq almost 20 years later.
Isaiah Cox
why didn't they just give every soldier a mech suit
Christian Butler
whoa
Leo Howard
riddle me this
why did the transport ships open from the front and not the sides or the back
Logan Kelly
Right, because war consists of 5 or 6 rounds at a time.
Christian Thompson
How exactly do you envision that working out?
Lincoln Davis
>Dude I want some bussy
Ryan Nelson
why wasnt there close air support in omaha?
why wasnt there aircraft carriers in the atlantic?
Cameron Cook
almost none of them drowned
>Had the Americans used the other funniest (minefield clearer, barbed wire clearer, flamethrower tank etc) as they should have been used, it wouldn't have been a problem even in the bad position they landed in. The rest of the beaches had little to no problem breaking through.
You keep ignoring the fact that Omaha's fortifications were much greater than that of any other beach. Or the fact that Omaha was defended by a division sized element instead of regimental sized units.
Adam Mitchell
This is why i come here. For posts like these
Thomas Jenkins
Because if you get out the back you have farther to travel and through deeper water. They had this shit planned out the best they could, and again, they did essentially have shields Stop getting tactical theories from movies. Men effectively lived in burning ruins and were able to win battles or even the war.
Easton Rodriguez
>that part where he blows up a tank with a pistol
turned it off right that second
Daniel Rogers
>Surely this will keep the status quo in America safe!
Bentley Brooks
Have sex
Zachary Bell
lmao yeah we will see how the US fairs in 50 years time, all I know is that britain will be regarded much higher in the history books than america ever will
Gabriel Foster
>all I know is that britain will be regarded much higher in the history books
Landon Hughes
you must have to wait a long time then
Isaiah Martinez
bullets go through shields, the only effective bullet stopping armour we have needs a vehicle to move it around. Armour is heavy.
Grayson Kelly
do or die
Benjamin James
hm, the math checks out
Sebastian Reed
kek
also kek
Gavin Hughes
>Canacuck/Britbong shill shitting on le americans lmao
you're ignoring the fact that Omaha was by far the most heavily-defended (an entire division) and heavily-fortified of the beaches
also, Utah went off basically without a hitch
Zachary Robinson
im saying it will stop A bullet,i never said anything about portable armor..
David Thomas
>shield
The impact of projectiles would flake the inside of the metal and turn them into razor sharp pieces of shrapnel, which is just as bad as being shot.
Aiden Green
>The impact of projectiles would flake the inside of the metal and turn them into razor sharp pieces of shrapnel, which is just as bad as being shot.
spaced armor would easily solve that, a secondary extremely thin anti spall layer
Charles Hughes
It was a sacrifice to moloch look up the date as well as the reason why you couldn’t volunteer to serve and the government hand picked the army
Tyler Wright
>as the reason why you couldn’t volunteer to serve
uhhh what the fuck are you talking about
Ethan Ward
Was about to post this verbatim
Nicholas Taylor
I said this right before you posted