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Duplex Drive Amphibious Tanks on Omaha Beach

 

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Topics: Normandy, Third Reich, D-Day, Operation Overlord, Operation Neptune, Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, Führer Adolf Hitler, Colleville-sur-Mer, Omaha beach, Vierville-sur-Mer, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, 29th Infantry Division, 116th Infantry Regiment, World War Two, 1st US Army, Engineers Special Brigade, Infantry, LST Landing Ship Tanks, 1st Infantry Division, 16th Infantry Regiment, DD tank, Duplex Drive Amphibious Tank

Objective Utah Beach: Tare Green and Uncle Red

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Topics: World War 2, Operation Overlord, Operation Neptune, Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, Führer Adolf Hitler, Atlantic Wall, World War Two, 1st US Army, US Coast Guards, Infantry, US Navy, LCVP Higgins barge, LST Landing Ship Tanks, 4th Infantry Division, 22nd Infantry Regiment, Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, 8th Infantry Regiment, 12th Infantry Regiment, La Madeleine hamlet

29th Infantry Division D-Day objective, take down Charlie - Dog sector

 

"Advance with the wire cutters" Lieutenant Edward Tidrick's final words Company "A" of the 116^th Infantry Regiment

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Topics: Normandy, World War 2, Nazi, Third Reich, Operation Overlord, Operation Neptune, Colleville-sur-Mer, Omaha beach, Vierville-sur-Mer, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy American Cemetery, Atlantic Wall

The first men on d-day were the french S.A.S.

“If someone had told us that we were about to die, no one would have believed him, we were so confident, we were like supermen” Jack Sibard

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Topics: World War 2, Nazi, Third Reich, Waffen SS, D-Day, Operation Overlord, Operation Neptune, Brittany