I read picrel recently. There's a little index at the end that lists the current (as of the book's publication in 1959) occupations of the American, British, Canadian, and German soldiers after the war, and upon reading that little list I was surprised by how many former Nazi officers went on to become NATO officers.

Almost finished picrel. On part 3 and I just got to H-Hour when the Americans land on Omaha. Shit's awesome. What really stands out to me though is just how many things went wrong for Allied troops on D-Day.

Can we please talk about this? It's kind of confusing with the timeline between June 4-5. I guess the decision to cancel the June 5 invasion was made early the day of June 4, and the final decision to invade on June 6 was made late the night of June 5, but BEFORE the armada on its way to attack the morning of June 5 turned around? Is that right? It seems like there are a lot of tightly-packed, overlapping details. It took me awhile to get un-confused, and a bit of Googling too, and even then not 100% of what Ryan says makes sense when taking Chapter 7 into account. Ryan said "the stand-down" was early June 4, but the aborted invasion on June 5 was cancelled when exactly? Early June 4 I guess??