";s:4:"text";s:2968:" Omaha Beach: D-Day, June 6, 1944 | Balkoski, Joseph | ISBN: 9780811733762 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. Juni 1944, mit einer geballten Streitmacht an der Küste der Normandie landen, ist die bis dahin von deutschen Truppen dominierte "Festung Europa" kaum mehr zu halten. Thousands of Allied troops were killed in the D-Day battle of Omaha Beach, when Germany's brutal defense caught them off-guard.
You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months,” began Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower’s order of the day on that fateful morning. Omaha Beach Surrounded by steep cliffs and heavily defended, Omaha was the bloodiest of the D-Day beaches, with roughly 2,400 U.S. troops turning up dead, wounded or missing. It consists of the towns of Vierville-sur-Mer in the west, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer in the center and the villages of Colleville-sur-Mer and Le-Grand-Hameau in the east. Sie gilt als der Anfang vom Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Europa: Als die alliierten Truppen vor 70 Jahren, am 6. How come I'm still alive? Within days, however, he asked to return to Omaha Beach, the bloodiest of the five sites invaded by the Allies on D-Day. “He was a good man,” his widow, Joann Woodson, 90, tells HISTORY. 5.9 kilometers long, this beach is 12 kilometers east of Utah Beach. Letzte Ruhestätte: Am ehemaligen Omaha Beach in Colleville-sur-Mer richtete die US-Armee bereits zwei Tage nach dem D-Day einen provisorischen Militärfriedhof für die Gefallenen ein. June 6, 1944 — also known as D-Day — was perhaps the single greatest turning point of World War II.