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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 4096864" data-attributes="member: 20741"><p>Utah was significantly lighter in casualties than Omaha. Omaha is where the main ugliness took place. Utah casualties were in the hundreds.</p><p></p><p>(As for Dieppe? That was just stupidity).</p><p></p><p>Even still, allied casualties for D-Day across all beaches including airborne drops was about 10,000, combined. That's casualties = killed + wounded in total.</p><p></p><p>The first day of the Somme, total casualties for the British Army (including Canadians) was about 55,000, with over 25,000 dead on July 1 alone. It remains the single bloodiest day in the history of the British Army.</p><p></p><p>I don't mean to belittle D-Day. It was massive, it was grim and the guys dropping out of those planes and hitting those beaches did something I don't think I could ever do.</p><p></p><p>But for all that, there have been worse days than that Day of Days. At least those heroes and their comrades can take solace that their sacrifice and bravery on that day won a war and accomplished something meaningful.</p><p></p><p>The Somme? Pretty hard to find a silver lining there. And yes, the Battle of the Somme consumed 1.1 million lives. To what end? Not much observable through this lens of history.</p><p></p><p>Anyways, point is, I don't see a link between the release of a new edition of D&D and a day of an historic battle that would have taken place 64 years previously.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 4096864, member: 20741"] Utah was significantly lighter in casualties than Omaha. Omaha is where the main ugliness took place. Utah casualties were in the hundreds. (As for Dieppe? That was just stupidity). Even still, allied casualties for D-Day across all beaches including airborne drops was about 10,000, combined. That's casualties = killed + wounded in total. The first day of the Somme, total casualties for the British Army (including Canadians) was about 55,000, with over 25,000 dead on July 1 alone. It remains the single bloodiest day in the history of the British Army. I don't mean to belittle D-Day. It was massive, it was grim and the guys dropping out of those planes and hitting those beaches did something I don't think I could ever do. But for all that, there have been worse days than that Day of Days. At least those heroes and their comrades can take solace that their sacrifice and bravery on that day won a war and accomplished something meaningful. The Somme? Pretty hard to find a silver lining there. And yes, the Battle of the Somme consumed 1.1 million lives. To what end? Not much observable through this lens of history. Anyways, point is, I don't see a link between the release of a new edition of D&D and a day of an historic battle that would have taken place 64 years previously. [/QUOTE]
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