Bloody Omaha | The Worst American Nightmare | Why? More than 3,000 Casualties 

Nothing but respect for all those brave souls who fought courageously and gave up their lives for something greater than themselves.

From everything I’ve read about Omaha was they didn’t bomb the hell out of the beach or the bunkers. Didn’t get tanks on the beach before the storming with men. It was a cluster Fk from the beginning.

The difficult terrain at Omaha makes you seriously wonder what the heck the Allied planners thinking when they picked it as a landing beach. Great video as usual.

This wasn't the worst day in American military history. During the American Civil War, Union forces took more than 7,000 casualties in the first 30 minutes of their attack on Confederate entrechments at Cold Harbor, VA on June 3, 1864.

Unfortunately riddled with errors, English no, British and Commonwealth. The 352nd Division were neither the only division at Omaha, the 716th also defended Omaha, the 352nd also were deployed on Gold Beach. The reinforcements sent to the beaches on D Day were 40% of troops sent to Omaha, 60% and all the 10 Stug, artillery vehicles, being sent to Gold. Omaha, by a very wide margin, was not as fortified as Sword Beach. The US Army’s own website estimates there were between 2400 - 3000 casualties, not 3000 dead. The allies expected higher than achieved casualties on all beaches. The majority of the 352nd division were not German veterans from the eastern front, there were more young recruits and press ganged Russians etc. The allies did know some weeks before D Day that elements of the 352nd division had been moved to Omaha and Gold beaches, they did not inform the invasion commanders until 4th June, as they did not consider this intelligence to materially effect the landings, and it was too late to change plans. Much of the footage is from Saving Private Ryan (a Movie not Omaha Beach) and in cases not accurate, no such bunker as the one shown being attacked existed on Omaha Beach, it is in fact modelled in configuration and disposition on one located on Sword Beach.

The tragedy and scandal of the D-Day landings is that none of the tracked amphibious vehicles used in the Pacific were used at Normandy.

In my military history class my teacher said there were 31 tanks. 30 sunk, only 1 made it on land.

It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage video about Omaha beach and 5 reasons which created hugest difficulties for US assault troops within highly casualties...thank you 🙏 ( war academy) channel for sharing

Good history Channel

some good d-day footga ein here that i have never seen. good work WA!

Can you please do a video on The Raid at Cabanatuan, also known as the Great Raid in which army rangers and Alamo scouts and Filipino guerrillas saved 500 POWs from Japanese captivity in early 1945

Thank You😊

The US 29th Infantry Division ran into a well-defended beach position. It cost the lives of many, and took extraordinary measures, including DDs steaming in to the point where they scraped the bottom, to lend fire support to the hapless men on Omaha Beach. Sheer weight of firepower saved the day for the US Army. THE END. P.S. A Marine Amphibious force probably would have done better, but the jarheads were all committed to the Pacific, period, that was a joint Army-Navy decision.

Most historians now agree that there are 6 landing beaches not 5.

🙋🏼‍♂️, Hello From Long Beach Ca. 🆒🎞️🎥 . 😊

How should Allied command know about tides and wave heights when planning an amphibious landing? /sarc

Where was the air support? Heavy armor.?

MY WAY is a good movie

This is really poorly researched video. Don't underestimate the other beaches. ALL the beaches had obstacles that they had to overcome. The two British beaches were backed by a solid defense-in-depth and closest to German reinforcements. The Canadian beach was relatively narrow but immediately turned into house-to-house fighting. Finally, the other American Beach was separated by flooded fields leaving only limited exits off of the beach. The fact is that Omaha was NOT a defense in depth. They had a finite supply of ammunition which quickly ran out. Yes, the carnage that you see in Saving Private Ryan really happened but only for a relatively short period of time. By lunchtime, it was relatively easy to get ashore. Canadians were still working through the houses along the shore and the British faced constant heavy resistance and frequent counterattacks until the end of the Normandy campaign in early August. To imply that ANYBODY had an easy time of it is a disservice to the Americans, Canadians, British, Free French, Poles...who fought and died there.

All of the points you make were not unique to Omaha. The planners knew about the tides, the geography, and the defences. The difference was execution on the day. These were brave men, but they were very young and few had battle experience. The ferocity of the German defenders surprised them. They were shocked by the casualties, the failure of the pre-landing bombardment, and the loss of their armour support. Their plan did not survive contact with the enemy, and they did not know what to do next. Their confidence and bravado evaporated. That was the big difference. Eventually the defences were overcome but it was a close thing. The US Army learned some hard lessons, and to their credit they learned them fast. Bloody Omaha was a stern teacher.

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The Rosary had been banned in Madrid city.

Should have sent the free french in first with degaulle leading ...after all its Their country!

British not English.

9:30 u-Tube: The Untold Past - The German Gunner That Slaughtered 1000 Americans on Omaha Bch

"I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!" - General Dwight D. Eisenhower

No time to listen to a machine. Bye.

Hitlers astrologer said it would be at pas de calais.

Ike sacrificed those brave men. 2 hours notice was given to the Nazi's for them to pull men to Omaha and Utah. The bad intelligence about the large guns on Utah was a very, very big mistake. The fear of those imaginary guns meant the naval bombardment had to stay out of range of them and Utah was a waste. Those brave men were dead when they left the ship's and they faced it like men.

"were raided..." Really,RAIDED?😆😆 You need a dictionary dude.

Poor fools fought the good guys. Ask Patton.

Maybe the yanks just weren’t up to the task.

What went wrong? It was assigned to American troops.

The AI voice on this channel is so distracting. Impossible.