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Soldiers with more experience should be more cautious of the possible presence of mines. Or in this case after the first man stepped on a mine, the rest of the platoon should have gone to the ground.

What was the trouble? I haven't gotten 4.0 yet but just in case I run into a problem.

I'm reading Snow And Steel right now and its excellent.

Any more MG AARs for the 72 anniversary coming up?

Manila John and M1917A1 did a pretty good job in Guadalcanal.

I've always wondered what was found in there. Computers, hard drives etc and what was on them.

That was "Fireball". The full story is in Hunnicutt's Pershing book (which has been reprinted). Looking at the pic with the soldiers on the turret, you can see the damaged co-axial mg on the right front fender.

Another great book is The Bedford Boys about the 29th soldiers from that town. Excellent read.

Wow! Great vid was that a QB? The casualties from artillery fire were nasty. I like the tank crews fighting with their pistols too. You can hear the cartridges ejecting from the .45.

Reminds me at the beginning of The Longest Day. That was a strafing run though.

That seems correct. Bruce Canfield and Scott Duff both say some M1C arrived in the Philippines before VJ-Day. Not in Europe.

Nice detail on the Garand.

No problem enjoy. There's a lot of good stuff on there.

I purchased it myself and though I have many Green Books some of the ones on the cd are very hard to find or expensive. If you can find this buy it.. They often list items as backorder but I've gotten a couple of books that were on backorder and they do get them pretty fast.

http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/100/100-11/index.html Michael this may be what you're looking for. It has the maps of the German emplacements etc and comes with an envelope with about 20 additional maps. I purchased it direct from CMH. You can view a pdf also but I prefer hardcopies. There's also a good one for Utah Beach.

Battleground is actually an excellent movie. The best Hollywood production of the battle.

The other two are The War In The Pacific and The Mediterranean Theater. Both pub in 1993. No ISBN.

Yes I have the atlas also. There is a PTO and a MTO atlas.

Didn't know that. I have older copies so I had no idea about the reprints.

Amazon has reprints of it for sale. Excellent book.

The one from BS was pretty good too.

That was Rexford. He was an excellent source of info on the subject. Great reading if you're interested in it.

I believe it was out of gas.

Looks like a game of "who's gun is the biggest".

Thanks for posting that. Considering how short that battle was (in comparison to say Stalingrad) the casualties were pretty steep. One of the great accomplishments in US Military history. I've had that book for awhile thanks for reminding me!