When it was dark, the 1st and 29th Divisions finally made a bloody way, occupying a landing field with a front of 6.4 kilometers and a depth of 2.4 kilometers, and by the time the front of the landing field was further expanded to 8 kilometers at night, with a total of 35,000 people on land. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Throughout the day, the U.S. 5th Army also paid a very heavy price, with 2,500 casualties alone. That night, the headquarters of the 5th Army went ashore and opened an advance command post. The first telegram sent by Rear Admiral Roger, the commander of the Army, to Bradley was: "Thank God for building the U.S. Navy for us." ”

The beach was full of blood and seawater, and the large-caliber artillery blew up the American troops on the beachhead in pieces, and the extremely high rate of fire of the MG42 saw over the American troops one by one like a chainsaw, and the American troops curled up on the beachhead in groups, and all the tanks were sunk by the magnetic mines planted by the Germans and the coastal defense artillery and boats.

The battle lasted until 9 hours later, and the U.S. Navy brought a turnaround to Omaha Beach. With no contact from the beach landing force for a long time, the naval commander realized that the situation on Omaha Beach might have become extremely dire.

As a result, the 17 destroyers advanced to a distance of only 730 meters from the beach and provided fire support for the landing US troops at close range, despite the danger of being hit by mines, grounded, and overturned by 155mm coastal guns.

And the death squads of the US army also climbed Cape Hawk at this time, and it turned out that all the 155mm coastal guns were actually camouflaged by telephone poles.

The unscrupulous navy unscrupulously poured shells on the German strongholds, and the American troops, who had previously been blocked on the beach, began to charge under the leadership of the 1st Division of the elite troops. At noon, the second echelon of the landing force landed ahead of schedule.

Under the guidance of the Air Force, the battleships and cruisers of the US Navy also began to shoot at the shore, and the German defenses basically collapsed.

Located east of Basing Harbour, 5.2 kilometers from La Rivière to Aromenche, Golden Beach is a low, flat beach with a sandy steep slope of about 10 meters above sea level, where the Germans set up as many as 2,500 obstacles, almost one every 0.5 meters.

The Germans also built a number of fortified support points, which could cover the entire beach vertically, but the distribution of support points was unreasonably balanced. Most of them are concentrated in La Rivière, Le Amir, and Aromench, and there are very few other places.

The first echelon of the landing at Golden Beach was the 30th division of the British 50th Army, reinforced with a tank brigade of the 79th Special Armored Division.

The second echelon was the British 7th Panzer Division, the only armored division that the Allies landed on D-Day, which had participated in the North African campaign and was the ace of the Allied armored forces. The person in charge of transporting the landing force was made by the British Douglas? Formation G under the command of Commodore Pennant.

At 4:55 a.m. on 25 August, the formation arrived at the transfer area, and the landing time had to be 60 minutes after high tide because the Calvados reef vein at Golden Beach was exposed at low tide.

In this way, the landing time was set at 7:25, which made the British army's fire preparation time relatively sufficient, and the naval artillery fire was prepared for 100 minutes, and the continuous and fierce artillery bombardment had a great effect, and several major German support points were destroyed.

Due to the strong wind and waves, the landing commander temporarily decided that the amphibious tanks would not be launched into the water, and the tank landing craft would be sent directly to the beachhead, thus avoiding losses like those of the US army.

In addition, the firepower of the German support points could only shoot longitudinally at the beach, and could not shoot at sea targets, so that the British landing force was not subjected to artillery fire when it rushed to the beach, and after rushing to the beach and entering the German artillery fire range, it was strongly supported by amphibious tanks and special tanks, and successfully controlled the landing field.

In particular, special tanks played a huge role, quickly clearing a large number of obstacles set up by the Germans, creating extremely favorable conditions for the advance of the infantry. The British advance was very smooth, until the village of Le Amir met with fierce resistance, and the infantry was stopped by the German fire from depth.

At this time, the British army's three "Cancer" mine-sweeping tanks used to act as pioneers were destroyed in the battle after the landing, one was plunged into the swamp, and the only remaining one drove up and broke into the village to dumb down the German firepower and clear the way for the infantry.

Elsewhere, everything went very smoothly as the exercise, and the landing commander, Eisenhower, learned of the situation and said happily: "Our deception tactics worked." ”

Did the deception tactics of the Anglo-American coalition really work? That was a big mistake, Rommel had already dug a big pit and was ready to bury them.

By eleven o'clock, the 7th Panzer Division of the second echelon had begun to land, and seven routes had been opened up on the beach by special tanks, so the advance of the British army was unimpeded.

At 12:30 p.m., the 50th Division concentrated the forces of the main two brigades and attacked inland, occupied Aromenche at 21 o'clock that night, joined up with the Canadian troops who had landed on Juno Beach, and connected the two beachheads.

Basings Harbor, located at the junction of the U.S. and British landings, was a small port with only two breakwaters, but it was invaluable to the Allies, who did not have any port at the beginning of the landing. The task of capturing Basin Eksin was carried out by the 47th Landing Strike Squadron of the British Marine Corps, which landed at Gold Beach.

The unit landed at 9:30 a.m. on the 6th 14.5 kilometers east of Basin Ekspres, but because it lost all its communications equipment during the landing, it lost contact with the main force and was therefore unable to receive support in terms of force and firepower.

Isolated in the face of fierce German resistance, they were held back near the coast for eight hours, and did not reach Basings until late in the evening.

At dawn on the 26th, the U.S. forces who tried to contact Omaha were unsuccessful, and finally used captured German communications equipment to contact the main force, and only then did they capture Basings Harbor on August 26 with the support of naval and air firepower.

So far, the 50th Division of the British Army has completed its scheduled mission, occupied the division's landing site about 8 kilometers deep, and landed about 35,000 people on the same day, with about 1,500 casualties.

Juno Beach is located on both sides of the mouth of the Searle River, 7 km east of Golden Beach, behind which is a stretch of sand dunes.

The Germans built many concrete forts and strong support points in this area, but there were relatively few obstacles on the beach, and the artillery was only equipped with 4 99mm coastal guns, and the defenders were a regiment of the 716th Coastal Defense Division, which was mostly Russian and Pole, with low morale and poor combat effectiveness.

Landing at Juno Beach was the 1st Infantry Division of the 3rd Canadian Army, reinforced by a special tank brigade of the 79th Armored Division, transported by the British Navy's J Formation.

At 4:30 a.m. on August 25, the formation arrived at the transfer area on time, and due to bad weather during the voyage and navigation errors, the landing time was delayed by 20 minutes compared to the scheduled time, which meant that the landing would miss the suitable tide and would have to be carried out in the rising tide.

…… (To be continued.) )