ZPG POE Omaha Beach Mappack

assault, turned out to have been extremely inaffective. The German defenses had remained practically untouched and raked the beach with fire, mowing down their attackers. To make matters worse, almost all the amphibious tanks sank before reaching the beach, thereby depriving the infantry of vital covering fire. As the hours went by, the situation inexorably deteriorated. As the tide rose, the beach become increasingly crowded with bodies borne in by the waves, countless wounded and the smoking carcasses of vehicles destroyed by shellfire. As the engineers responsible for removing all the underwater obstacles had been decimated by enemy fire, many incoming barges bringing reinforcements crashed into the poles and detonated the mines. After an ordeal lasting several hours, the American soldiers at long last gained the upper hand. As the gullies were too strongly defended for them to venture up them, the GIs, drawing on every last ounce of energy and courage, managed to climb the bluffs towards the end of the morning and small groups made their way across the plateau to launch an attack from the rear on an enemy whose resistance was, in any case, gradually crumbling.
Landing at 6.30 am, the first waves were greeted by heavy fire and pinned down on the beach. The previous night’s aerial bombardments, like the firing by the naval artillery immediately prior to the