I hadn't finished the article yet, and I admit my knowledge of that landing is not as mature as others. It would seem that the fact that it went well kept it from being as well know as Normandy, Salerno, or Anzio. (Of course, it is sad to say that not many in America could tell you the significance of Salerno or Anzio in the WWII. That's not to say anything about the marvelous things you guys did [Rocky, Chuck, et al.] that's just a pathetic reality caused by the lack of interest in things that don't have to do with misbehaving starlets.) In the case of Normandy, most people are familiar with Omaha beach - even if they couldn't identify it by name. The other four beaches, especially the British and Canadian, are not as well know because it wasn't the slaughter that the 29th and 1st ID's walked into.
That's my own theory on it anyway. I guess Dieppe was a slaughter, too, but not many outside the WWII history nerd community knows about it either. How 'bout it Moose? Is Dieppe a household name in the land of Engles? God bless those boys; they got destroyed.
James Dietz 29, Let's go!