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Originally Posted by lebell
Oh yeah, there were some tremendous foul-ups.
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And folks lost lives on it. there wasn't a good ID system for troops in the days following d-day, and my grandfather was nearly shot as an infiltrator D+6. He had gone over to England with Bill Donovan and the OSS to work as a intel operation before the US was officially involved, adn so he was commissioned as a British officer. his Royal Navy uniform looked like an Waffen-SS one, with only slightly diff. insignia. The GI's who took him prisoner eventually bought his story, and i'm in their debt.
the war was won, and i'm proud of what they did to do so. but there was extreme scarcity, full mobilization, and this nation throwing everything it had in to that war. if there wasn't enough to arm and protect them, it was becase there wasn't enough, period.
we're fighting a war of choice, when we choose the place and time. that we're running low on body armor isn't just stupid, it's a crime against the men and women we're asking to fight. we had time to prepare, and the choice of waiting until more supplies were ready. D-day was put off for some time before Eisenhower was sure we had the ability to win the fight.