An American helmet was lying quietly on the beach accompanied by waves of waves. At this time, the BBC was broadcasting the battle against the occupied area of France. The mayor of Saint-Meire looked helplessly at the citizens being escorted away by the Germans. The priest in the church told the French people who were worshiping to believe that the darkness would pass.
Standing on the beach, Marshal Rommel said to the commander next to him in a firm tone that the Allied forces will definitely land here. I believe that the day of landing will be The Longest Day for the enemy and me. If you want to attack the Allied forces, you must They cannot be given a chance to stand on the beach, so they must be fortified here as soon as possible. The commander told him that the troops had been building and fortifying in these days, and the soldiers had been exhausted, but Marshal Rommel asked him to choose between death and fatigue. The commander had nothing to say.
In the German army, except for the intelligence officer Lieutenant Colonel Mayer and General Max Max who were convinced that the Allied forces were about to land in Normandy, most generals, including Rommel, did not believe that the Allied forces were about to invade. Especially Marshal Lundest, the commander-in-chief of the Western Front, he has always believed that the Allied forces should land in Calais, because that is the approach that conforms to the tactical principles.
At the same time, everyone in the Allied Forces was also waiting, waiting for the arrival of the landing and strike orders. In order to relieve the tension and anxiety, the officers and soldiers gathered together to gamble.
Finally, in the early morning of June 6, 1944, the Allied forces, dominated by American and British forces, landed on the beaches of Normandy. Due to the tight security measures for the Normandy landing, many people do not know when the real attack was launched. At the same time, the Allied forces also created a large number of false images to confuse the enemy. The weather on the day of landing was quite bad. Many non-commissioned officers and soldiers could not bear the turbulence of the ship, and they suffered from seasickness and vomiting. But even with a belief, most of the non-commissioned officers and soldiers persevered in silence. The U.S. military suffered more firepower than expected, so many soldiers panicked due to shock and injuries when they first landed. Until noon that day, the landing troops had not yet gained a foothold, and General Bradley even considered withdrawing from Omaha and landing on Utah beaches instead. Later, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon that day, the first division made a foothold in Omaha after the engineers gradually cleared the passage.
In addition to landing, the Allied airborne troops suffered heavy casualties, especially when the 82nd Airborne Division strayed into the city of Saint-Meir. Due to the attack at night, the transport aircraft pilots were unable to accurately visualize the landing field, and coupled with the interference of anti-aircraft artillery, many aircraft had parachuted the paratroopers prematurely, so some paratroopers strayed into the villages and towns. Due to air strikes, villages and towns caught fire. Under the supervision of the German army, the villagers were busy fighting the fire. Suddenly the paratroopers descended from the sky, causing the Germans to panic. For paratroopers, this is undoubtedly a catastrophe.
