Omaha - The Matrix Games version of West Front

The landing by regiments of the 1st and 29th Infantry divisions and Army Rangers on Omaha Beach was even more difficult than expected. When the first wave landed at 06.30 hours, the men found that naval gunfire and prelanding air bombardments had not softened German defences of resistance. Along the 7000 yards of Normandy shore German defences were as close to that of an Atlantic wall as any of the D-Day Beaches. Enemy positions that looked down from bluffs as high as 170 feet, and water and beach obstacles strewn across the narrow strip of beach, stopped the assault at the waters edge for much of D-Day. By mid morning, initial reports painted such a bleak picture of beachead conditions that General Omar Bradley, US First Army Commander considered pulling off the beach and landing troops elsewhere along the coast.