Omaha Beach Memorial perpetuates the memory of the American soldiers who landed on Omaha Beach in 1944.
UPDATED: 03/01/2010
American Cemetery
The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France is located on the site of the temporary American St. Laurent Cemetery, established by the U.S. First Army on June 8, 1944 and the first American cemetery on European soil in World War II. The cemetery site, at the north end of its ½ mile access road, covers 172.5 acres and contains the graves of 9,387 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. On the Walls of the Missing in a semicircular garden on the east side of the memorial are inscribed 1,557 names. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified.
Museums
-Omaha Beach Museum Memorial
-The Big Red One Assault Museum
-Museum D-Day Omaha:
-Maisy Battery
U.S. Maps 1944
These maps are printed by World War II D-day Maps
Links:
American D-Day pays homage to those young Americans, who fought 6 June 1944, at Omaha Beach, Utah Beach, and the Pointe du Hoc, places responsible for changing the course of history.
29th Infantry Division Association
29th Division Historical Society
Roland Baker - 29th ID-175th IR-B
Society of the 1st Infantry Division
16th Infantry Regiment Association
18th Infantry Regiment Association
Roland H. Voght - 1st ID-16th IR-I
James T. Lingg - 1st ID-26th IR-I
2nd Infantry Division Association
Office du tourisme d'Omaha Beach
THEY DID D-DAY ON OMAHA BEACH
274 PHOTOS
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Testimonies:
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Monuments:
Books:
"They were on Omaha Beach, 213 eyewitnesses" by Laurent Lefebvre
"Fragments of My Life"
by John J. Barnes
"Omaha Beach and beyond"
by John R. Slaughter
"Teenagers at war"
by John J. Somers
"D-day Survivor"
by Harold Baumgerten
"No greater sacrifice, No greater love"
"All my love, forever"
"Beyond the beachhead"
by Joseph Balkoski
"Omaha Beach"
by Joseph Balkoski
"Lots of love, Sonny"
by Lillian & Sonny Milone
"The Bedford Boys"
by Alex Kershaw
"The road to war"
by Steven Burgauer
66th D-Day Anniversary
OMAHA BEACH 
6 June 1944 - 6 June 2010
June 6, 1944, to 6h30, the first waves of the 1st Infantry Division and the 29th Infantry Division launched out to the attack of the beach of Omaha Beach. The 116th Infantry Regiment of 29th Infantry Division unloaded on the Western sector, extending of Vierville sur Mer with Saint Laurent sur Mer, while the 16th Infantry Regiment of 1st Infantry Division unloaded on the East sector, active of Saint Laurent sur Mer with Colleville sur Mer.
Pfc Russel L. Picket - Company A, 116th Infantry, 29th Division
Omaha Beach - 06h31
Our boat either hit a mine or was blown by a shell, when I woke I was on the beach, without any equipment or weapons and unable to walk. When I revived conditions were unexplainable, dead and wounded everywhere, the noise of the guns firing, men screaming crying like you would not believe if I could explain it.
(Testimony extracts from the book "They were on Omaha Beach, 213 eyewitnesses" by Laurent Lefebvre - American D-Day Edition)
S/Sgt Glenwood E. Hankins - Company H, 116th Infantry, 29th Division
Omaha Beach - 07h00
There was haze and smoke everywhere on the beach. I came off the right side of ramp and inflated the belt around my waist... A machine gun was firing into the water about 60 feet ahead, I could tell by the splash of the bullets that it was coming from the right or west par of the beach. The bullets were moving toward me and I was walking toward them with no place to go or hide...
(Testimony extracts from the book "They were on Omaha Beach, 213 eyewitnesses" by Laurent Lefebvre - American D-Day Edition)
Pfc Arthur Schintzel - Company B, 16th Infantry, 1st Division
Omaha Beach - 07h50
... I looked to the left and there were troops to my left now, but I looked to my right and there was no one. Suddenly I found myself in front of a sand dune which was, obviously, a foot path so I stopped, stuck my head up over the top of the dune and loitered, so to speak, and decided I was not going to live very long if I stood where I was...
(Testimony extracts from the book "They were on Omaha Beach, 213 eyewitnesses" by Laurent Lefebvre - American D-Day Edition)
Pfc James L. Lockhart - Company B, 115th Infantry, 29th Division
Omaha Beach
We made our way up a draw to keep from being killed where we landed. Soon as we got off the beach it was small green fields with land mines everywhere. Several of my platoon members were wounded or killed less than a mile away from the beach.
(Testimony extracts from the book "They were on Omaha Beach, 213 eyewitnesses" by Laurent Lefebvre - American D-Day Edition)
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