\"Omaha Beach\" D-day Landing, Normandy, Operation \"Overlord\" Sand from Beach For Sale

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\"Omaha Beach\" D-day Landing, Normandy, Operation \"Overlord\" Sand from Beach:
$6.90

opportunity to buy a small part of history.
Here are a few grams of sand from Omaha Beach. Little bottle 40mm / 1.58 inch I have personally collected the sand from omaha beach (saint laurent sur mer)

OMAHA BEACH

If there is one place where the Landings nearlyfailed, it is, of course, Omaha Beach.

Although the place chosen for the amphibiousassault was certainly not ideal for the purpose and presented many risks, itwas the only possibility between Gold, the British sector to the east, andUtah, the other American beach, further west on the Cotentin coast. BetweenGrandcamp and Arromanches, the Bessin region is bordered by sheer limestonecliffs rising twenty or thirty metres above the sea. In front of the villagesof Vierville, Saint-Laurent and Colleville, however, there is a six orseven-kilometre gap, where the cliffs give way to bluffs intersected by gulliesproviding access to the beaches.

Because of its topography the site was easy todefend. There were no fewer than fourteen Widerstandnessen (“resistancenests”), located mainly at the entrance to the gullies leading from the shoreto the plateau, which were also blocked by antitank walls. The Germans hadcovered the entire area with guns, machine-gun nests, mortars, minefields andbarbed wire.

In March 1944, the beach was given the codenameOmaha, a city in the state of Nebraska. Three months later, it went down in thehistory books as “Bloody Omaha” because of the terrible losses suffered thereby V US Corps, made up of the 1st Infantry Division under Major-General Huebnerand the 29th Infantry Division under Major-General Gerhardt.

Landing at 6.30 am, the first waves were greetedby heavy fire and pinned down on the beach. The previous night’s aerialbombardments, like the firing by the naval artillery immediately prior to theassault, turned out to have been extremely ineffectual. The German defences hadremained practically untouched and raked the beach with fire, mowing down theirattackers. To make matters worse, almost all the amphibious tanks sank beforereaching the beach, thereby depriving the infantry of vital covering fire. Asthe hours went by, the situation inexorably deteriorated. As the tide rose, thebeach become increasingly crowded with bodies borne in by the waves, countlesswounded and the smoking carcasses of vehicles destroyed by shellfire. As theengineers responsible for removing all the underwater obstacles had beendecimated by enemy fire, many incoming barges bringing reinforcements crashedinto the poles and detonated the mines.

After an ordeal lasting several hours, theAmerican soldiers at long last gained the upper hand. As the gullies were toostrongly defended for them to venture up them, the GIs, drawing on every lastounce of energy and courage, managed to climb the bluffs towards the end of themorning and small groups made their way across the plateau to launch an attackfrom the rear on an enemy whose resistance was, in any case, graduallycrumbling.

By the evening of D-Day, the Omaha bridgeheadwas scarcely two kilometres deep. The operation which had begun so badly hadultimately been a success, although a very heavy price had been paid. Thelosses totaled.

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