During the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6th 1944, American soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division who had stormed Omaha Beach in France were killed by the German army, and their bodies lay scattered across the beach.

     On June 6th 1944, during the Allied invasion of Normandy, soldiers from the US 1st Infantry Division stormed the beach at Omaha Beach in France, but were killed by the German army and their bodies scattered across the sand.The names of 4,427 soldiers are inscribed on the National D-Day Memorial, including 2,510 American soldiers and 1,917 soldiers from allied countries who died in the battle. The Germans lost around 2,000 men.

      On June 6th 1944, on the Western Front of World War II, the Allies invaded German-occupied France and carried out the Normandy Landings. Omaha Beach is an 8km section of the Normandy coast of France that faces the English Channel. The main force of the landing troops on Omaha Beach was the US Army, which gained a continuous 8km beachhead on the Normandy coast of the Seine Bay. The US Army that landed on Omaha Beach worked in cooperation with the British Army to the east and the 7th Army Corps of Utah to the west.

     The German 352nd Infantry Division was the one to oppose the Normandy landings. Of its 12,020 men, 6,800 were combat-experienced troops, and they were dispatched to defend a 53km front line. The German attack repelled the Allied naval attack at the water's edge, and the defense was mainly deployed in the assault bases along the coast.

    The first assault by the Allied forces did not weaken the defenses on the Normandy coast, and the ships that followed were unable to land. Most of the landing craft, which had difficulty navigating, missed their targets on June 6th. The German defenses were unexpectedly strong, and the landing American forces suffered considerable casualties. Amidst the heavy German fire, the US Army Corps of Engineers struggled to clear the obstacles on the beach. The remaining assault troops, weakened by casualties immediately after landing, were unable to clear the exits on the Normandy beaches. This caused delays in subsequent landings, and ultimately the surviving troops made a day-long assault. A small-scale invasion was achieved by climbing over the cliffs between the most heavily defended points. By the end of the day on June 6, two small isolated footholds had been gained. After that, the weakened German lines inland were attacked, and on June 7 the original Normandy D-Day objective was achieved.