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Two kinds of people are staying on this beach: those who are dead and those who are going to die. Now let's get the hell out of here.
-- Col. George A. Taylor on Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944
Omaha Beach
No invasion beach suffered heavier casualties than "Bloody Omaha." Americans landing there faced relentless machine gun and artillery fire from fortified German positions high atop coastal cliffs.
Shelling by Allied ships blunted German counterattacks, but it was makeshift bands of surviving soldiers who took out the enemy's positions and broke through Hitler's western defenses. |