Chapter 11 - Carnage and Courage
Normandy 1944: The First Crucial Days
Omaha Beach, 116th Regiment, Company A, H-hour 06:30[1]
In the 29th Infantry Division’s sector the first ramps dropped around 06:36 a.m. A Company, 116th Regiment was first on the scene. The men had discovered early on that they would arrive exactly at their predetermined site. But the beach, which should have been dotted with bomb craters in which they…