Reading a new batch of Books on D-Day recently.
The experience the attacking Troops had at Omaha Beach is heart breaking to read. Very little film exists to record that experience for us to see which in itself reminds us of the Death and Horror of that assault across and open beach littered with Mines and Obstacles and no place to hide from the enemy artillery, anti-tank, mortar, machine gun, and rifle fires.
The one clip of movie film showing a half dozen infantrymen right at the water's edge being gunned down is so emblematic of the losses suffered by the 1st and 29th Divisions on Omaha.
Combined effort it was, but it still took very Brave Men to cross that Beach, breach the German defenses, and defeat a determined entrenched and fortified enemy battle line.
My Hat is off to those guys, everyone of them!