Again from "The dead and those who are going to die", it was mentioned that Omaha's terrain initially led planners to want to bypass the beach, but it was needed to fill the gap between Utah and the British beaches. Allowing the Germans to defeat either sector in detail was considered Not a Good Thing, for obvious reasons.
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My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988.
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