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During that walk (I was unable to run), I got my first experience with enemy fire. Machine-gun fire was hitting the beach, and as it hit the wet sand, it made a "sip sip" sound like someone sucking on their teeth. Ahead of me in the distance, I could see survivors of the landing already using the base of the bluffs as shelter. Due to my near drowning and exhaustion, I had fallen behind the advance. To this day, I don't know why I didn't dump the flamethrower and run like hell for shelter. But I didn...
...miles across the countryside, some coming down directly into towns. Many wood-and-canvas gliders were raked by German fire or crashed into unexpectedly large hedgerows. But by the end of D-day, British commandos had captured key bridges near Caen, and Americans held large pockets inland from Utah Beach...
Lost in the flood Many airborne troops found themselves landing in water, miles from the beach. The Germans had flooded many inland fields...
...BLOODY OMAHA" More than one -third of the first wave of soldiers were killed or wounded fighting to cross an obstacle-strewn beach while heavy fire rained down from the cliffs...
Sources: U.S. Army in World War II, European Theater of Operations: Cross-Channel Attack, by Orlando Ward; The Penguin Atlas of D-Day and the Normandy Campaign, by John Man; D-Day Gliders, by Philippe Esvelin; D-Day 1944, Omaha Beach, by Steven J. Zaloga