Omaha Beach D-Day Site Normandy France WWII

A video of the Omaha Beach area, including the American War Cemetery, Point-du-Hoc, and the beach itself. This is the site of the bloodiest invasion on D-Day, and is made familiar in popular culture by Saving Private Ryan. All Americans should go there at least once in their lives to pay their respects. Video shot on HD in 2006.

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• Omaha
• Beach
• Normandy
• France
• United
• States
• WWII
• D-Day
• history
• cemetery
• monument

[paul0811]

bless those who lost their lives on omaha beach that horrible day

the memory will live on

[bwfc123100]

r.i.p thoses men in normandy who died fighting for there country in 1944 june 6th god bless them!

[joe2grand]

I think the visitors who go there - even if they let their kids play on it - are there because they are interested in it and have respect , or they would be sat on the couch at home like moat other people

And surely what we fought for is to see our kids playing happily - blissfully unaware of the evil of the Germans - if the Germans had won they would probably be in gas chambers - so I think it's good they are playing there

[Nintenkid91]

When you go at low tide, you really can get the idea of how far they actually had to go from the waters edge to where the germans were. It's insanely long.

[BeauEllenbecker]

My dad, now 92, landed on the Beaches of Normandy on D+8. The waters of the English Channel were too stormy for the troops to land by ship on the first two tries from the English coast.... that may have saved his life. A few years ago my dad, mom, son, daughter and myself retraced my dad's steps when he landed on the Beaches. We had our own private narrator -- my dad. It was AMAZING! Not many veterans from WWII can still tell their story! Thanks, dad.

[fiachra94]

i was there in august of this year (last month) it was really amazing

[zLOSTNOMOREz]

If any of you still have family living that fought in WWII,do me a favor.

Tell them, thank you.

[44foggell]

@44foggell Also, the bomb/grenade craters are still there, and kids were running and playing in them, not understanding what happened there 67 years ago. Its such a shame to see that these grounds are not holy.

[44foggell]

I was there 3 weeks ago, that should be holy ground. Tourists/vacationers swim in the ocean there and act like it's a regular public beach, when it should be a protected historic site. Personally, I didnt walk on the sand there because it is insane to think you even deserve to be right there. I know that they were fighting for us but still, people need to be kept off that beach. It represents such a great sacrifice that I hate to see people playing and joking around on it. RIP heroes.

[Tolan04]

goosebumps

[01MSlaghuis]

first ad is world of tanks , a ww2 game

[Scrubs141]

My great grandfather fought as a rifleman 3rd wave on Omaha Beach. He was shot in the right shoulder.