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Exactly! It's not going to look like Saving Private Ryan. That movie depicted the first wave. The first soldiers hitting the beach at Omaha described watching almost their entire group wiped out in front of them, dozens of them just dropped. Many of the survivors had to run and wait in cover for the next group so they could keep going forward with support. The first wave was an absolute blood bath. Soldiers are marching forward with relative calm in many of these shots because the force had already moved further inland by that point. Robert Capa supposedly arrived in the 1st wave, so his photos show the initial chaos much better. It's been said that he came later, but either way, his photos show a much more frantic environment. He was too scared to continue, didn't go too far up the beach before turning back. That's how bad it was initially, so you can imagine most photo journalists wouldn't have gone in the 1st wave.

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most bunkers were heavily camouflaged there were no big bunkers like you see in movies and video games

I heard a quote from a soldier that encapsulates this great. “We went out there as boys,we came back as pits,emptier than any hole in the ground,our only defining feature was fancier clothes”

dang

they were on the beach for over 6 hours, trust me it was intense

cause unlike the movies and games would have you think, the Germans aren't right there on the beach, they are way up on the cliffs in the background

@@BXRDIGITAL2.0 oh, well yeah. That would explain why it took a full hour-hour and a half to take the beach

@@DarkRanger-tj9tm no it took way more time like 3-6 hours plus

that happened in some places, just not in this exact spot and not to every landing craft

Omaha beach was hell , literally like in the movie. There's no footage of this , some sources say that there were no survivors first wave.

2,501 Americans died on d day, that's alot to lose in a day

@@BXRDIGITAL2.0 yes but video games make it seem like everyone died but only 9% were even injured

the sector where many soldiers died was Omaha Beach, there was no time to film, it was literally a meat grinder like a Private Ryan movie. This was the first wave of landings, which was met by machine-gun rain; some sources say that no one survived the first wave. Movie and game scenes were reproduced from the words of veterans.

@@AlextimeArchive not fully true. now it is true that most people in some areas died in the first wave especially at dog green sector where 90 something % casualty's were recorded. now you say it was like SPR it wasn't. now in some places like fox sector people did get shot down in there boats. in areas like dog green sector the Americans were not even shot at until they had already left their boats and moved up the beach. that's why dog green was so deadly they let them group up then obliterated them at close-ish ranges. also most deaths on Omaha beach were not due to machinegun fire but artillery such as 88s and howitzers and even anti tank guns which they had dedicated bunkers for like wn72 and wn65 machineguns were more of a noise that occasionally picked off men except for some small accounts were bad things happened. this was mostly do to the fact that the beach was long af and machineguns aren't very accurate, especially the mg42 and mg34 which also, the mg42 only made up around half of the machineguns. also Omaha was not a sector it was a beach.

its not

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cameras back then didn't have sound, only very few audio recording from ww2 that are real exist

they were on the beaches from 0730 to around 0900, by the afternoon the beaches were secured and the fighting was inland

good job jerry

Compared to the eastern front this is a vacation

@@chillout8320 weird. Some had it very bad that day . I wonder they they even landed at Omaha they shoud've diverted