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| | ChronWatch Writers' Blog: The Black Shadow Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | In WWII, 2,000 American soldiers of the 1st and 29th Divisions were killed on June 6th, 1944, D-Day, because U.S. intelligence FAILED to note that the crack German 352nd division had moved into the heights above Omaha instead of the weak 716th division THOUGHT TO BE THERE!) |
 | | Not only that, the battalion of U.S. Army Rangers who stormed the cliffs of Point Du Hoc that day and took nearly 50 percent casualties to find the weapons of mass destruction, namely the 8 inch. |
 | | German shore batteries which would have rained artillery shells on the landing craft on Omaha and Utah, WEREN'T EVEN THERE either. |
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