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We were held back by the Germans, and with the sea behind us, we advanced only 7 yards on the beach without fire cover, and at that time the highest point in the vicinity was a reef. ”

"The only way we can get out of the beach is to blow up the scrap tank that is blocking our path. Finally, one of us managed to blow the tank away with explosives.

The squad leader ordered me to go to our commander George? Colonel Taylor, tell him we've crossed the beach. So, I stood up and prepared to run.

It's hard to keep your balance when you run past soldiers who are wounded or lying in pools of blood.

Since there was no place to stay, we had to run in the sea. The waves crashed against the corpses, one moment to the shore, the other to the sea.

The limbs of the fallen are everywhere - here is a *** there, there is a head, here is an ass, what a place to be a mess of flesh. Guts, guts, guts, that's what Omaha Beach is like. ”

"When I found Taylor, he was taking a cigar off his mouth. He handed me the cigar and said, "Want to smoke?" Then he said, I don't think there is any heroism, I believe in miracles.

He stood up and told us that very famous sentence. "There are two kinds of people on this beach, those who are dead and those who are dying," he said. To hell with it. ”

Then he started crawling, and then he ran. He led us all through the beach under artillery fire. It's not bravery, it's a feeling of anger and a sense of purpose.

Whatever you say, don't say anything heroic, heroic, fearless, strong. We are American infantry, this is our business, and no one is a hero. ”

Kenneth? Buckman participated in the Normandy landings as a corporal in the 2nd Special Battalion of the 5th Army Corps of the U.S. Army. He and his comrades successfully launched an assault on a 30-meter-high cliff at Cape Hawke and captured it.

Their mission: to eliminate the 155-mm heavy artillery positions that controlled Utah Beach and Omaha Beach. To the surprise of the senior commanders of the D-Day campaign, there were also many cannons laid near the coast, and the Einsatzgruppen had to search for and blow them up.

As a result, the casualties were heavy: by the end of the landing, less than a third of the battalion's 255 men were still fighting, and the battalion was soon withdrawn.

Buckman was captured by the Germans on 26 August. In the face of a hurried interview, he said:

"Whoever tells me that he is not afraid is either an idiot or a liar. You're definitely going to be scared, you can't get close to this 100-foot cliff, and without the cover of fire, the enemy is shooting at you, and you're not scared at all, it's impossible.

A poorly equipped landing craft has no fire cover, a landing craft is a basic landing unit, carrying more than 30 people, at most only 2 sailors of the navy, it has no keel, so as long as there is wind and waves, you will feel it.

When we were still half a mile or more from the coast, the Germans began to fire at us, and we could hear bullets whizzing past the side of the boat.

At the foot of the cliffs, it can be said that there is no beach at all. It was all reef, the landing craft was as close to the shore as possible, the sailors lowered the landing pads, and we jumped into the water. ”

"Jumping off the landing craft, we fired some iron claw spears attached to the ropes, shot them at the top of the cliff, and then we started to climb up quickly. We know what we have to do.

We know very well that if we stay down and can't move forward, we're going to be beaten to a pulp. We struggled to climb, and German soldiers threw grenades at us and shot.

At that time, bullets were coming from three sides - from the left, from the right, from the center. I was the one in the bow of our boat who grabbed a rope and climbed to the top of a cliff.

I stayed at the top of the cliff for about 5 to 10 minutes. I search for enemies on it. You can't look around when climbing.

You have to hold a thick rope in your hand, and your hand moves again and again, and you have to carry a 2,040 to 50 kilogram suit, with rifles, pistols, and bullets, but strangely enough, I don't care about that, and it seems like I climbed up without much force. ”

"The first 20 feet are really hard to climb, and you don't have a place to hold onto, and the only thing you can hold on to is the rope, and when you get to the top of the cliff, you can finally take it a little easier, and as soon as you see a head peeking out from the top of the cliff, you have to stick your face to the cliff right away.

Otherwise, there would have been a burst of shooting, and I remember looking down from the top of a cliff and seeing one of us lying wounded on the beach. At that time, I was thinking, God, maybe I'll be like this, maybe I'll not be able to live. ”

"When I got to the top of the cliff, it was like I was in heaven, and there was no one on it, only a crater, and I looked down, and the guys below were scrambling to climb up, and a few more people were hit by stray bullets and fell. The beach was littered with dead bodies.

In the distance, black destroyers and landing craft crowded the two-mile beach like sardines, and farther away were the big guys—gunboats and cruisers—and I could hear the sound of naval guns rumbling like thunder, and we were like rabbits, finding one hole from one hole to another.

We finally found out that they had moved their guns to a place half a mile away, and under the shelling of the navy, the Germans had run away, which was really disappointing, where the hell had they been hiding?

We searched there for an hour, but we didn't find a single shadow of the enemy, and it was as if 100 years had passed.

In this way, we searched the shore for a whole day, and in the morning we searched everywhere and blew up the guns of the enemy that we found.

I will say that this is the most difficult and annoying thing I have ever experienced, none of you have ever experienced it, and every time I think of the people who are alive and die one by one, I am so depressed and feel very sad in my heart.

However, our offensive was effective. We finally found the guns that were still usable. Our mission is to blow them up. That's how they were blown up by us. A day later, we were captured in a woods by the counterattacking Germans. ”

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