US 29th Infantry Division
▶ Explore on the mapThe 29th Infantry Division, a National Guard formation from Maryland and Virginia, landed on Omaha Beach on 6 June 1944 alongside the 1st Infantry Division. Omaha was the bloodiest of the five assault beaches: the bluffs, the German 352nd Division and the failure of much of the supporting armour to reach the shore combined to hold the first waves at the water's edge for hours. The 29th suffered heavily in the initial assault but by nightfall had established a precarious foothold. In the days that followed it helped link the Omaha and Utah beachheads and then fought south through the hedgerows towards Saint-Lô, which fell in mid-July. The division remained in the line during the breakout and the advance into Brittany and towards the Seine. The positions shown here are schematic headquarters-area locations illustrating the general movement from Omaha Beach to the Saint-Lô sector and beyond. Its ordeal at Omaha became one of the defining images of the American experience of D-Day.
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- Wikimedia Commons — Charnwood (SVG, by EyeSerene)
- Wikimedia Commons — Operations Greenwood and Pomegranate, Normandy, July 1944 (EN.svg)
- Wikimedia Commons — Operation Tractable (SVG, by EyeSerene)
- Wikipedia — 352nd Infantry Division (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Wikipedia — Falaise pocket (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Wikipedia — Normandy landings (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Wikipedia — Operation Overlord (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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