On 6 June 1944 the US 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions, with Army Rangers, landed on this eight-kilometre stretch of the Normandy coast beneath bluffs held by the German 352nd Infantry Division. Most amphibious tanks sank, and the first waves were cut down on sectors such as Dog Green. Small groups of soldiers finally climbed the bluffs through the draws, at a cost of about 2,400 casualties.
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Landing
Pinned at the seawall, the 29th Division and its commanders must blow a gap in the German defenses or die on the sand.
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Landing
Captain Miller's Rangers land in the first wave, survive the slaughter at the water's edge and fight their way up to the German bunkers.
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Landing
In the first wave on D-Day, the squad is pinned on the beach and has to blow a gap in the German defences.
War
American, British, Canadian and other Allied troops landed on five Normandy beaches in the largest seaborne invasion in history. The long-awaited second front in the west began the liberation of Western Europe.
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