In 1970, General Su Yu was able to visit the Normandy landing site by chance. In order to better understand some of the details of the Normandy Campaign that year, General Su Yu asked four questions to the French military experts who accompanied him. What people did not expect was that when these four questions were finished, the French experts could not answer any of them.
Normandy landings
Many people may wonder if these problems will be deliberately hidden by French experts and unwilling to inform General Su Yu. But in fact, this possibility is relatively small, first of all, in that era, there was no problem of political confrontation between China and France, and France had no reason to conceal the details of the battle. Secondly, there is the fact that decades have passed since the Normandy landings, and many details must be studied, and there is no need to do such a useless thing.
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Data on transport and landing vehicles
The first question is, that is, when normandy landed, the Allied forces totaled 3 million, so what means of transport and landing did the Allies use? Compared with several other problems, in fact, this problem is more straightforward and simple. It's like asking what weapons soldiers used in a battle.
Unfortunately, just for the first question, the French experts in the same industry could not give an accurate answer. For him, the Normandy landing operation has passed for so long, and the relevant landing data has not paid much attention to at all, and naturally there is no way to give an accurate answer.
An important structure of the artificial port
In desperation, General Su Yu had to ask the second question, that is, the Allies had built an artificial port in the Bay of Seine in order to facilitate the transportation of troops. It was also the emergence of this port that allowed the Allied weapons to rush to the coast. So what materials are used for such a strong port? And what structures are used?
It is disappointing that the problems related to the materials still leave General Su Yu with no gain.
Normandy landing site
Compared with the complexity of the data, the simple structure and materials should be the details that every military expert needs to pay attention to. From this point of view, perhaps the French expert did not pay much attention to the Normandy landings.
However, out of curiosity about the Normandy landings, General Su Yu continued to ask the last two questions with the attitude of trying it out. Perhaps on these two issues, it is not necessary to say that I got an unexpected gain.
A corner of the Normandy landings
Parameters and coordinated combat methods of the relevant buildings
The third question is what are the parameters of some of the temporary load-bearing buildings that the Allies were building in that year? Many people may not quite understand the cause of this problem. In fact, the main reason for raising this question is that when the Allies launched the landing operation, it was precisely by relying on these load-bearing buildings to resist the Nazi bombing that they finally won the battle.
But what we need to know is that these buildings are temporary, not permanent. If there is nothing special, it will inevitably collapse under the crazy bombing of the Nazis.
A corner of the Normandy landing site
The final question is that the entire Normandy battlefield is only 50 kilometers deep from north to south, and when millions of people and various tanks, artillery, and armored vehicles enter the battlefield, how do they cooperate?
After all, in such a dense situation, once the Nazis launched bombing against the Allies, they could almost achieve a 100% hit rate, and the Allies would not suffer heavy losses. Not only that, once the attack was blocked, the Allies would even be driven back to the sea, which would eventually lead to a complete collapse of the front and a direct reversal of the battle situation.
Stills from the Normandy landings themed film and television drama
Regrettably, in the end, General Su Yu still could not wait for the answer he wanted, and could only analyze it through his own observations. But from another point of view, there is actually nothing wrong with this. After all, to feel it personally on the battlefield, the harvest may be much more than others explaining. In particular, the speculations that a military genius like General Su Yu can make are definitely not what ordinary people can imagine.
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