1. The broadest beach 6 miles and deepest beach 3 fb fields deep
2. The beaches had dunes, barbed wire obstacles and hedgehogs planted to prevent tanks from being brought ashore
3. Germans also planted many explosive mines on the beach and in the water-”Bouncing Betties”
4. Steep 100-foot bluffs/cliffs above the beach were fornications of 2,000 veteran German troops, 85 machine-gun nests, 38 rocket placements, 35 pill boxes, 18 antitank gun positions, 8 fortified gun batteries, 6 mortar pits
5. troops had been told that creators would be left by the air craft and naval artillery would serve as ready-made foxholes for air raids: did not happen; blinded by cloud cover
6. The cross channel trip was rough causing sea sickness
7. many drowned before ever arriving to the beach
8. 1/3 f those landing on Omaha died within the first hour it would 12 hours to gain control at Omaha