<story><title>D-Day: How a British Oceanographer&apos;s Invention Decided Normandy&apos;s Fate</title><url>https://www.inverse.com/article/45649-d-day-tide-predicting-machine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>megaman22</author><text>One could argue that what really decided Normandy&amp;#x27;s fate, and the fate of all of occupied France, was Operation Bagration, the real gut-punch that smashed the Wehrmacht and broke them, hundreds of miles to the east.&lt;p&gt;The scale and savagery of war on the eastern front is so mind boggingly incomprehensible, and relatively unknown for an English-speaking audience. If you have not, I highly recommend Dan Carlin&amp;#x27;s Ghosts of the Ostfront series of podcasts, to get even a sense of the insanity.&lt;p&gt;The western front was, in totality, almost a sideshow in comparison to the titanic, inhuman struggle raging from Black to Baltic seas.</text></item><item><author>jessaustin</author><text>Now &lt;i&gt;that&amp;#x27;s&lt;/i&gt; an exaggerated title. The headline on the page has &amp;quot;74 Years Ago, a Brilliant Invention Decided When D-Day Would Occur&amp;quot; not &amp;quot;Decided Normandy&amp;#x27;s Fate&amp;quot;. I was under the impression that hundreds of thousands of people fought in that battle? Did they not influence the outcome somewhat?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skgoa</author><text>&amp;gt; I highly recommend Dan Carlin&amp;#x27;s Ghosts of the Ostfront series of podcasts, to get even a sense of the insanity.&lt;p&gt;Just don&amp;#x27;t take any factual claims Carlin makes as fact. He is a storyteller, not a historian. He editorializes his stories a lot.</text></comment>
<story><title>D-Day: How a British Oceanographer&apos;s Invention Decided Normandy&apos;s Fate</title><url>https://www.inverse.com/article/45649-d-day-tide-predicting-machine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>megaman22</author><text>One could argue that what really decided Normandy&amp;#x27;s fate, and the fate of all of occupied France, was Operation Bagration, the real gut-punch that smashed the Wehrmacht and broke them, hundreds of miles to the east.&lt;p&gt;The scale and savagery of war on the eastern front is so mind boggingly incomprehensible, and relatively unknown for an English-speaking audience. If you have not, I highly recommend Dan Carlin&amp;#x27;s Ghosts of the Ostfront series of podcasts, to get even a sense of the insanity.&lt;p&gt;The western front was, in totality, almost a sideshow in comparison to the titanic, inhuman struggle raging from Black to Baltic seas.</text></item><item><author>jessaustin</author><text>Now &lt;i&gt;that&amp;#x27;s&lt;/i&gt; an exaggerated title. The headline on the page has &amp;quot;74 Years Ago, a Brilliant Invention Decided When D-Day Would Occur&amp;quot; not &amp;quot;Decided Normandy&amp;#x27;s Fate&amp;quot;. I was under the impression that hundreds of thousands of people fought in that battle? Did they not influence the outcome somewhat?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manangatangy</author><text>&amp;gt; mind boggingly incomprehensible&lt;p&gt;Absolutely agree.&lt;p&gt;I strongly recommend this interactive illustration of the casualties of ww2, which really drives home the scale of this catastrophe.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fallen.io&amp;#x2F;ww2&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fallen.io&amp;#x2F;ww2&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>