User talk:Alan561

Omaha Beach
"More difficult and time consuming than it first appeared" - I hear you. I thought I'd spend a few days improving the article as best I could. It took the best part of two weeks! Even then I ran out of time (the end is a little abrupt considering the battle for the beachhead raged for another 2 days). I'm not sure that the operation was 'misplanned' so much as just didn't go to plan, and you already have my thoughts on the idea that it was a tragedy, but I'm not really that precious about these and your edits are good. The external link 352nd division gives numbers for this division, but the official history reports that prisoners were also taken from the 726th regiment of the 716th division, so I'm a little unsure about the actual number of defenders. As for links to famous people...that's the sort of thing that doesn't generally appear in the histories of this subject that I've seen so to my mind has no place here really, but if you think it is valid then fair enough. I'm not sure if you are aware but I put the article through a peer review, the results of which can be found here. I did what I could to accommodate the recommendations but I'm going to be offline for a month soon and had to call it a day. At the risk of coming across as patronizing, I hope you do see it through, you're doing a fine job. Cheers. --FactotEm 13:27, 1 July 2007 (UTC)