On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:19:25 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


I feel sorry for those guys - that's tough. If that had been a real
assault, they would have been dead meat. I've seen a similar
situation when the landing craft hit a sandbar and it looked ok, but
right after the sandbar, there was a hole about four feet deep -
damned near drowned a couple of guys.

Like "Bloody Tarawa"? Wading 500 yards through enemy fire ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tarawa