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Men of the 116st Regiment, 29th Division land on Omaha Beach, 06:30h (CET).
Virginia, by God!
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Men of the 116st Regiment, 29th Division land on Omaha Beach, 06:30h (CET).
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Major Howard and his men land in Horsa Gliders next to Pegasus Bridge and takes it by surprise. Sadly, the first casualty of the war is also suffered, Lieutenant Herbert Denham Brotheridge dies on the Bridge a little past midnight.
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Major-General Richard Gale, GOC 6th Airborne Division, addresses his men. (IMW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_dbXyeyMa4
Surviving D-Day: Omaha Beach 1944
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Published on May 4, 2013
Omaha Beach | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_Beach
Omaha Beach is the code name for one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during World War II. The beach is located on the coast of Normandy, France, facing the English Channel, and is 5 miles (8 km) long, from east of Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes to west of Vierville-sur-Mer on the right bank of the Douve River estuary. Landings here were necessary in order to link up the British landings to the east at Gold Beach with the American landing to the west at Utah Beach, thus providing a continuous lodgement on the Normandy coast of the Bay of the Seine. Taking Omaha was to be the responsibility of United States Army troops, with sea transport and naval artillery support provided by the U.S. Navy and elements of the British Royal Navy.
On D-Day, the untested 29th Infantry Division, joined by the veteran 1st Infantry Division and nine companies of U.S. Army Rangers redirected from Pointe du Hoc, were to assault the western half of the beach. The battle-hardened 1st Infantry Division was given the eastern half. The initial assault waves, consisting of tanks, infantry, and combat engineer forces, were carefully planned to reduce the coastal defenses and allow the larger ships of the follow-up waves to land.
The primary objective at Omaha was to secure a beachhead of some five miles (eight kilometres) depth, between Port-en-Bessin and the Vire River, linking with the British landings at Gold Beach to the east, and reaching the area of Isigny to the west to link up with VII Corps landing at Utah Beach. Opposing the landings was the German 352nd Infantry Division, a large portion of whom were teenagers, though they were supplemented by veterans who had fought on the Eastern Front. The 352nd had never had any battalion or regimental training. Of the 12,020 men of the division, only 6,800 were experienced combat troops, detailed to defend a 53-kilometre-long (33-mile) front. The Germans were largely deployed in strongpoints along the coast—the German strategy was based on defeating any seaborne assault at the water line. Nevertheless, Allied calculations indicated that Omaha's defenses were three times as strong as those they had encountered during the Battle of Kwajalein, and its defenders were four times as many.[1]
Very little went as planned during the landing at Omaha Beach. Difficulties in navigation caused the majority of landing craft to miss their targets throughout the day. The defenses were unexpectedly strong, and inflicted heavy casualties on landing US troops. Under heavy fire, the engineers struggled to clear the beach obstacles; later landings bunched up around the few channels that were cleared. Weakened by the casualties taken just in landing, the surviving assault troops could not clear the heavily defended exits off the beach. This caused further problems and consequent delays for later landings. Small penetrations were eventually achieved by groups of survivors making improvised assaults, scaling the bluffs between the most heavily defended points. By the end of the day, two small isolated footholds had been won, which were subsequently exploited against weaker defenses further inland, thus achieving the original D-Day objectives over the following days.
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Normandy: The Airborne Invasion of Fortress Europe (D-Day Documentary)
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Published on Dec 4, 2012
CBS documentary narrated by Richard Basehart that serves to encapsulate the events that lead up to and included the liberation of Europe from Nazi oppression by the Allies.
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Normandy: The Airborne Invasion of Fortress Europe (D-Day Documentary)
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General Eisenhower talking to other troopers of the 101st Airborne.
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Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne in their Dakota's waiting for the takeoff to start the invasion.
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Getting ready to embark on the Great Crusade.