One would think BD6 the powers that be would have employed within reason seasoned veterans to steady the un-blooded raw recruits to the horrors of combat not that in the ETO theater early on it manifested itself like the horrors of Flanders or Passchendaele the latter always remembered for the clinging mud.
By the time the battles like D-day, Falaise gap came about troops had seen enough war to understand the true horrors of such a conflict even so there were plenty of new recruits wanted and enlisting for the cause but had the benefit of combat veterans from previous actions.

As a civie I am not even going to try and imagine what conditions were like or being under fire in any conflict and to those past and present that have seen action in keeping freedom alive you as always have my eternal gratitude I may just be one person on this merry go round planet but its my thoughts that are with those that serve and continue to do so.