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Normandia’s Defence during 1942

Anticipation

Andrei Tapalaga ✒️
3 min readAug 14, 2019

As the Americans decided to enter the second world war due to the attack of Peral Harbor, they were ready to support the west front of France which was to infiltrate Europe that was held by the Germans. The Germans had a great challenge ahead of them, they were very good at attacking but not so good when it came to defence. The reason why this was such a big challenge it was because they had to cover a lot of land with not so many troops at disposal as most of the troops were sent to fight towards the push on the east front.

They had to decipher 7, now we are not talking about just some AAA guns no, we are talking about full-on triple mount 300mm naval cannons that would just obliterate anything it is aimed at, however, these were very rare and had a huge flaw (because of their huge size they were an easy target for bombers.

It is very difficult for many to even think about that time of period as it was presented aa the real hell on earth. What you have portraied above is a 88mm…

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Andrei Tapalaga ✒️
Andrei Tapalaga ✒️

Written by Andrei Tapalaga ✒️

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