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The Book I got this information from analyzes a number of mistakes made in the landings on Omaha Beach. Instead of rank insignia on the front, (where snipers would detect them), the officers were given a single white stripe on the back of their helmet, going up and down.The NCO's got the stripe going sideways.This way, while LEADING their men, it was easy to see who the leaders were.Īnother oddity of 'boat packing' was that HHC of the 116th RCT was packed onto the deck of LCI 91 along with combat engineers, wearing flamethrowers!.When the flamethrowers got hit, those poor engineers tanks ruptured spilling jellied gases all over the people on the decks.(One might wonder why those engineers were not protected better, and why packed with the 'crucial' leader elements of an entire RGT?)

Just before D Day, they knew the assaulting units would lose a lot of officers and NCO's, so all the units were over-stocked with extras, (to compensate for the expected losses.)

The commanding generals of V Corps and the 1st, 4th and 29th ID's were all against the boat team organization but were overruled by 1st US Army. This organization is 29 men which is the max carry capacity of the LCVP according to the book. Lewis gives the following breakdown for how the men in each LCVP were organized:ġ x 5-man Rifle Team carrying M-1's with 96 rds each and grenadesġ x 4-man Bangalore and wire cutting team carrying bangalore torpedos and M-1'sĢ x 2-man BAR teams, each carrying one BAR and one M-1 carbineġ x 4-man 60mm mortar team with 15-20rds 60mm and personnal weaponsġ x 2-man flamethrower team with one flamethrower and personnal weaponsġ x 5-man Demo team carrying TNT and bangalore torpedo's plus personnal weapons. I had know for some time that the assault troops of the US D-Day forces were not organized as squads and Plts in the initial assault, but had never seen the exact breakdown as to how they were organized. Lewis, I can across some information I thought I would post here. While reading 'Omaha Beach, a Flawed Victory' by Adrian R.

Company of heroes 2 ardennes assault bar