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Omaha Beach

The Longest Day
Fire Blazing, hearts racing, limbs missing, soldiers yelling out in agonizing pain, are some scenes than can be replicated by movies or books. But the reality of what happened on June 6, 1944, known as D-Day, the longest day in history can never be and never will be portrayed accurately, especially what happened on Omaha Beach. There are countless details that happened on D-Day that few and far between have any clue of. The landing on Omaha Beach was different from any other day during WWII. It was the first major involvement from the U.S. and first real account at the reality of war.
It was on June 6, 1944, that Operation Overlord, the long anticipated invasion of Nazi- held Europe went into action. General Dwight David Eisenhower was in command of the invasion, which was code-named Operation Overlord. The first of the beaches to be landed on was Omaha Beach, which was the most restricted and heavily defended of the beaches. The terrain was difficu...

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