Bloody Omaha: How Small Groups of Soldiers Fought Their Way Off the Sand
Headline Wednesday: Omaha Beach, World War II follows the long morning on D-Day when the plan fell apart and small groups of soldiers refused to. From the gray dawn over the English Channel to the first chaotic steps into waist-deep surf, this episode tracks how American infantry landed on a fortified crescent of sand backed by steep bluffs and hidden draws. We walk listeners through the machine-gun fire, mines, and concrete strongpoints that turned Omaha into a near disaster, and how destroyers closing the range and ad hoc assault teams clawing up the slopes slowly changed the story. Headline Wednesday is the Wednesday feature of Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, developed by Trackpads.com.
