Omaha Beach.
Omaha Beach.
Gunfire directed along the length of a target, such as a column of troops.
troops = Truppen
They faced 'Rommels Asparagus' on the beaches and extremely heavy gunfire at Omaha.
First attested 1910, from Modern German 'strafen' - to punish, 'strafe' means to attack by gunfire from the air. "The Red Baron could see no more aircraft to dogfight, so he strafed a body of ground troops"
well.. 1. the attack was spotted by a German Convoy 2. the landing craft was late 3.the beaches they chose gave Germans a huge defensive advantage because of the cliffs 4. troops were overwhelmed.
German troops were freed to fight in the west.
hessians
I think German army i guess
Stailingrad
The War in China -- Review of German Troops - 1901 was released on: USA: January 1901
Yes, he did. The Hessian’s were German mercenaries and he reached out to Czarina Catherine of Russia for troops, but she declined.