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There are 1,200 bombers from the Royal Air Force and 1,000 bombers from the U.S. Eighth Air Force. When these planes appear in the skies over Sword Beach, Juno Beach, Golden Beach, Omaha Beach, Utah Beach and other places in the Normandy area, they can be said to block out the sky and the sun.

It gives people a huge sense of oppression like a dark cloud passing by.

The soldiers of the German 7th Army on the defense line raised their heads and stared blankly at this horrifying scene.

Their eyes were full of shock, and they swallowed involuntarily.

The Allies actually came from here!

The stunned moment did not last long, because the bomber had already arrived overhead, the bombing bay door opened, and aerial bombs rained down like hail.

The sound of bomber engines is dull and depressing, giving people a splitting headache;

The sizzling sound of the aerial bomb falling to the ground was so piercing that it caused countless people to react from their stunned state and fly into the reinforced concrete fortifications to take shelter.

The entire Normandy area began to tremble and boil, especially the four landing sites, which were undergoing unprecedentedly fierce bombing.

The shells fell on the beach, and the dust billowed.

Falling into the sea, the water column reaches the sky.

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Falling into the swamp behind the defense line, mud and sand splashed.

The bunker, which was built by Rommel himself and made of reinforced concrete, withstood such a violent bombing.

But the entire defense line was trembling, and the reinforced concrete walls were no exception. Many German soldiers were holding their guns and vomiting.

At this time, they no longer thought about why the Allied forces appeared here, and wholeheartedly resisted the tremors and oppression caused by the fierce bombing.

The bombers that blocked the sky had just passed by, and thousands of warships appeared on the sea in the light morning fog.

The frightened German soldiers carefully stretched their heads to the shooting window of the bunker. When they saw the shocking scene in front of them, they cried without tears.

Officers at all levels began running in the traffic trenches, and machine gunners set up their machine guns.

In addition to elite German troops, there were also a large number of volunteer troops composed of captured Romanian, Polish and Russian soldiers along the entire defense line.

There are also several Eastern battalions, which are all composed of people with Eastern faces.

At this moment, regardless of their hair color, eye color or skin color, they all picked up the machine gun in unison. Although they were frightened, their fingers were on the trigger, ready to fire at any time.

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The naval guns began to roar, and the first attack was on the most threatening fort on the Atlantic Wall equipped with large-caliber shore guns.

The field of vision was almost obscured by the smoke of the explosion, and in the hazy sight a large number of landing craft were rushing towards us at high speed.

There were five landing sites. The first batch of landing troops organized by Eisenhower Montgomery consisted of five divisions, one division responsible for one beachhead.

While aircraft bombed and naval guns roared, the landing soldiers descended from the warship to the landing craft along the rope net.

There are large and small landing craft. Large ones can carry people and heavy equipment, while small ones can only carry 30 people.

The sea water also surged slowly due to the constant rocking of the warship.

There were more than 4,000 large and small landing ships. After the naval guns stopped roaring, they rushed towards the coast like sharp arrows.

The soldiers of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division were inspired by the huge formations of the Allied forces in the sky and at sea. Many people felt that under such bombings and attacks, even the steel defense lines should collapse.

They should be able to land as easily as they did when they landed in Sicily, as if they were walking on a beautiful beach.

When the landing craft started moving quickly, the soldiers began to feel a little uneasy.

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At 6:45, the first batch of landing craft approached the beach, and the hatch suddenly opened.

The American soldiers who were ready to go quickly stood up and made a posture of bending down and running wildly.

But before their feet even started to move, the bullets fired by Hitler's chainsaw rushed towards them.

The sound of popping was heard endlessly, the blood mist rose, and soon only red was left in front of the soldiers' eyes.

Some soldiers struggled to climb out of the sea onto the beach, and the scene before them made them despair again.

The indiscriminate bombardment by bombers and naval guns did not completely clear the obstacles on the beach. The Juma welded by steel rails are still standing, and there are intermittent barbed wire connections between the Juma and Juma.

What's even more terrible is that there is no bunker on the beach nearly 200 meters away. 200 meters away is a nearly vertical cliff. The German bunker on the cliff is constantly spitting out tongues of fire, and Hitler's chainsaw is constantly harvesting human lives.

The U.S. 1st Division in charge of Omaha Beach was almost in dire straits. At first, hundreds of people were crowded on the narrow beach, and people kept dying around them.

As the landing force increased, the number began to reach thousands.

At the desperate moment, some officers stood up and thought it was better to move forward and survive than to sit and wait for death.

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In the first hour after the landing operation began, the U.S. troops on Omaha Beach were completely suppressed.

Lieutenant General Jero, commander of the Fifth Army, who was commanding the formation on the rear warship, could not see clearly what was happening on Omaha Beach through his telescope because water mist was rising in front of his eyes and smoke was filling the air.

Troops came ashore one after another, but immediately lost contact after going ashore.

Lieutenant General Jero was extremely worried.

After more than an hour, Lieutenant General Jero finally couldn't bear it anymore. He ordered the two destroyers to get as close to the beach as possible, risking mines and rocks, to provide fire support for the troops coming ashore.

It was more than three hours later that the situation began to ease. Some determined and experienced veterans blew up the bunkers blocking the road and lowered rope ladders from the cliff, allowing the large troops to escape from the beach.

After achieving certain breakthroughs, the soldiers will continue to face challenges.

Behind the coastal defense line there are barbed wire fences, trenches, fences, swamps...

The landing operation was launched at 6:30, and by about 11 a.m., the U.S. Army, British Army, and Canadian Army had achieved breakthroughs at Sword Beach, Juno Beach, Gold Beach, Omaha Beach, Utah Beach, etc.

The soldiers rushed into the steel and concrete public buildings, and after a long melee with the Germans, they discovered that many of the formidable forts were not equipped with large-caliber coastal defense guns.

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The thick barrels they had seen before were all camouflaged with wood.

Many people couldn't help but curse and greet the women of the Mustache family.

Under the cover of unprecedentedly powerful sea and air firepower, by noon, some of the fastest advancing troops had successfully joined forces with the airborne troops who had landed behind enemy lines a few hours earlier.

After learning the news, Eisenhower, Churchill, Roosevelt and others all breathed a sigh of relief.

The current main task is to ensure the safety of the landing site, and then work hard to seize the port dozens of kilometers away.

Only with the port in hand can more than 2 million Allied troops and equipment continue to disembark.

The speed of the Allied advance was unexpected, but Rundstedt did not panic.

Rommel advocated destroying the enemy on the beach, and the first 24 hours determined the outcome.

Rundstedt was different. He believed that a counterattack should be launched after the enemy had secured the landing site and had an unstable foothold. Only then could the greatest results be achieved.

Having misjudged the enemy's true landing location, Rundstedt was actively trying to remedy the situation.

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