Omaha 1944-German Defences.

[Reibert-Austria]

Sector WN62

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Impressive images, thx. for showin´!

BTW, From "Widerstands-Nest 62" Private Franz Gockel, and, Private Hein Severloh fought down a lot of GI´s on Omaha-Beach.

"WN 62" was northside of Colleville-sur-Mer.

[BPA-Paul]

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[Kengir]

Incredible pictures.
Thanks for sharing your visit and for keeping it fresh each passing year.

-Jeremy

[BPA-Paul]

Incredible pictures.
Thanks for sharing your visit and for keeping it fresh each passing year.

-Jeremy

Your welcome Jeremy


Cheers.

[Marc Shaffer]

Impressive images, thx. for showin´!

BTW, From "Widerstands-Nest 62" Private Franz Gockel, and, Private Hein Severloh fought down a lot of GI´s on Omaha-Beach.

"WN 62" was northside of Colleville-sur-Mer.

Isn't this the position that the majority of US casualties on Omaha were suppose to have come from?

[BPA-Paul]

Isn't this the position that the majority of US casualties on Omaha were suppose to have come from?

Marc, its hard to give an exact casualty rate from this (WN62) defence position, but I've read an approx figure of around 700 ??, but don't hold me to it.

The casualty rate for Omaha in general has change over the years, so its hard to get an exact figure.. maybe we will never know.

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I did read this from the DDay Museum/Portsmouth in the UK...

How many Allied and German casualties were there on D-Day, and in the Battle of Normandy?

“Casualties” refers to all losses suffered by the armed forces: killed, wounded, missing in action (meaning that their bodies were not found) and prisoners of war. There is no "official" casualty figure for D-Day. Under the circumstances, accurate record keeping was very difficult. For example, some troops who were listed as missing may actually have landed in the wrong place, and have rejoined their parent unit only later, or indeed may have died after D-Day before they could rejoin. Some figures that are often quoted may only represent army losses, and may leave out naval and air forces personnel who became casualties.

For many years, the Allied casualties figures for D-Day have been estimated at 10,000, including 2,500 dead. Broken down by nationality, the D-Day casualty figures that have been cited for many years are approximately 2,700 British, 946 Canadians, and 6,603 Americans. However recent painstaking research by the US National D-Day Memorial Foundation has achieved a more accurate - and much higher - figure for the Allied personnel who were killed on D-Day. They have recorded the names of individual Allied personnel killed on 6 June 1944 in Operation Overlord, and so far they have verified 2,499 American D-Day fatalities and 1,914 from the other Allied nations, a total of 4,413 dead (much higher than the traditional figure of 2,500 dead). Further research may mean that these numbers will increase slightly in future.

Another recent study assesses that the figures for casualties (of all types) for each beach were as follows: Utah 589, Omaha 3,686, Gold 1,023, Juno 1,242, Sword 1,304 (quoted in Stephen Zaloga, "The Devil's Garden. Rommel's desperate defence of Omaha Beach on D-Day" p.12). These figures do not include the airborne forces.

Losses amongst the British airborne troops are often quoted as some 600 killed or wounded, and 600 missing; 100 glider pilots also became casualties. Casualties for the US airborne were 2,499, of which 238 were deaths.

The total German casualties on D-Day are not known, but are estimated as being between 4,000 and 9,000 men.

All the best.

[herrzark]

Α very interesting thread.Great photos.Thank you

[ACER]

Thanks for you work, it´s really very impressive

Iñigo

[HAF]

super photos-thanks for your work

[BPA-Paul]

That time of year again.....

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[airborne_steve]

Great photo tour and history of the past and current state of the Atlantic Wall in the Normandy invasion sector.

[BPA-Paul]

Thanks Steve.