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Crumpled map solves mystery of German gun behind D-Day massacre | the Daily Mail

Crumpled map solves mystery of German gun behind D-Day massacre
4th January 2008

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A baffling mystery of the D-Day landings was solved by an amateur historian - after he found a crumpled map at a fair in Stockport.

Experts have long disputed the location of the main Nazi gun battery which caused carnage on Omaha Beach, in terrible scenes which were recreated for the Hollywood film Saving Private Ryan.

The Germans had built a decoy gun emplacement overlooking the area while the location of the real guns which blasted the beach, where 2,000 men lost their lives, remained unclear.

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@Skye cv,

That damned Desert Fox.
But, why have historians never mentioned the fate of the real gun. Though it may have killed many, there should be stories of it's demise or how it survived. If it survived, it would likely have been even more effective at stopping or slowing the invasion. Surely it was not simply bypassed...?

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Skye;49944 wrote:

Crumpled map solves mystery of German gun behind D-Day massacre | the Daily Mail

Crumpled map solves mystery of German gun behind D-Day massacre
4th January 2008

Continued text and fantastic pictures in link

A baffling mystery of the D-Day landings was solved by an amateur historian - after he found a crumpled map at a fair in Stockport.

Experts have long disputed the location of the main Nazi gun battery which caused carnage on Omaha Beach, in terrible scenes which were recreated for the Hollywood film Saving Private Ryan.

The Germans had built a decoy gun emplacement overlooking the area while the location of the real guns which blasted the beach, where 2,000 men lost their lives, remained unclear.

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@Skye cv,

good article. thanks for posting Smile

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@Skye cv,

Glad you enjoyed this bit of history

Sterne has some dedication all right and what a payoff! I hope one of the U.S. networks will be able to negotiate a showing of the program the BBC has constructed for our own viewership.

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@Skye cv,

A really great bit of history, thanks.

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