First, thank you for your always interesting podcast. At the beginning of this episode the assertion is made that at Omaha Beach the men didn't hang around waiting for the leaders to get them to move. But as it happens I am just reading "the dead and those about to die" by John McManus and he is asserts that that is exactly what did happen. Namely, men were generally pinned down by fire in difficult positions on the beach and it was up to the NCOs, lieutenants, and Higher officers to get them to move, often by leading by example. To eve, in fact, give speeches sometimes that convinced the men that they must move. E.g., ...there are "only two types of men on this beach: those dead and those about to die." .. (So get moving). So sometimes the caricatures of leadership are not so far off
