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**ariniaxia** · 06-08-2012, 05:20 AM

Gold Almost took all objectives took substantial casualties doing so
Juno Took all objectives and faced serious casualties doing so
Sword Couldn't take Caen until a full month later
Omaha Nearly called a failure. Largest amount of casualties. Offsetting this is that arguably facing the most battle hardened Germany troops (352nd) as opposed to the OST troops at other landing sites. Achieved objectives at D Day +3. Still better performance than Sword beach.
Utah Achieved virtually all objectives with little casualties (but arguably not as much opposition as Juno)

Performance ranking: 1. Canadien 2. USA 3. British

You missed a few key facts:
Sword - cleared the deepest defences and stopped dead a counterattack by a Panzer division (recent research shows that casulaty rates here were actually much higher than believed)
Omaha - IIRC only 2 battalions belonging to 352nd were present here (the rest of the battalions were from coastal defence divisions) - as many as were involved in dealing with the advance from Gold.
Utah - true about opposition but not so about achieving objectives - they didn't even linkup with the paras on D-day

Performance ranking - has to be 6th airborne - Orne bridges, Dives bridges, Merville battery and dealing with a panzer division

06-08-2012, 05:20 AM	#17
ariniaxia Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 478 Senior Member	Gold Almost took all objectives took substantial casualties doing so Juno Took all objectives and faced serious casualties doing so Sword Couldn't take Caen until a full month later Omaha Nearly called a failure. Largest amount of casualties. Offsetting this is that arguably facing the most battle hardened Germany troops (352nd) as opposed to the OST troops at other landing sites. Achieved objectives at D Day +3. Still better performance than Sword beach. Utah Achieved virtually all objectives with little casualties (but arguably not as much opposition as Juno) Performance ranking: 1. Canadien 2. USA 3. British You missed a few key facts: Sword - cleared the deepest defences and stopped dead a counterattack by a Panzer division (recent research shows that casulaty rates here were actually much higher than believed) Omaha - IIRC only 2 battalions belonging to 352nd were present here (the rest of the battalions were from coastal defence divisions) - as many as were involved in dealing with the advance from Gold. Utah - true about opposition but not so about achieving objectives - they didn't even linkup with the paras on D-day Performance ranking - has to be 6th airborne - Orne bridges, Dives bridges, Merville battery and dealing with a panzer division
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