Omaha beach - Mercure Hotel Omaha Beach

While there were forces at work which were beyond what the Allied planners could manage successfully, there were some pretty major failures of intelligence, planning and implementation which the author pulls no punches in pointing out and assigning blame where possible.

The source of the noise, however, was shifting from German guns to our own.

During the course of June 7, while still under sporadic shellfire, the beach was prepared as a supply area.

Defended by nearly a million men, the Atlantic Wall by mid-1944 bristled with heavy artillery, mortars, and machine guns.