Landing on the Edge of Eternity: Twenty-Four Hours at Omaha Beach

When Company A of the U.S. 116th Regiment landed on Omaha Beach in D-Day's first wave on 6th June 1944, it lost 96% of its effective strength. Sixteen teams of U.S. engineers arriving in the second wave were unable to blow the beach obstacles, as first wave survivors were still sheltering behind them. This was the beginning of the historic day that Landing on the Edge of Eternity narrates hour by hour.



Mustered on their troop transport decks at 2 a.m., the American infantry departed in land...