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…