The landing at Omaha Beach
1944 · Event
The plan fails in the first minute: the bombardment misses, the amphibious tanks founder, and the first waves are machine-gunned on an open shingle beneath intact bluffs. That the landing succeeds anyway — small groups clawing up the draws by mid-morning — costs some 2,400 casualties, D-Day's worst.
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