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| The Battle for Omaha Beach, D-Day, 6 June 1944 By the beginning of June 1944, the beaches of the tranquil French coast of Normandy had been transformed by the occupying German Army to something not nearly so picturesque. A dozen bunkers complexes dotted the high bluffs overlooking the five kilometre-long crescent of sand between Vierville-sur-Mer and Colleville-sur-Mer, littered with obstacles designed to punch holes in any landing craft willing to brave them. At each end, forbidding cliffs lined the water's edge, making an assault there impossible. Four draws sliced through the forbidding bluffs. They were the only way off the beach for vehicles, and the most heavily fortified points. The most important of the draws were the two to the east called D1 and D3 by the Allies, as both had roads winding up from the beach and heading inland. Ther beach the Allies had codenamed Omaha had become the outer wall of Hitler's Festung Europa, Fortress Europe, and the English Channel its moat. Inside you will find:
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