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undetected inside German lines. The attack on the beaches of Normandy was now

ready to take place.

American forces, led by Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley, landed on the western beaches

of Utah and Omaha. British and Canadian troops, led by Gen. Bernard Montgomery

and Gen. Sir Miles Demsey, landed on the eastern beaches called Gold, Juno, and

Sword. Allied air forces controlled the skies but could not penetrate the walls

of well-entrenched Germans. Especially at Omaha Beach, at Omaha casualties came

to 2,000 soldiers. In contrast only 210 soldiers died at Utah beach. ?The came

ashore on Omaha Beach, the slogging, unglamorous men that no one envied,?

Conrnelius Ryan wrote in his account of events, The Longest Day. ?Some of the

men hadn?t a chance. German gunners on the cliffs looked almost directly down

on the waterlogged assault craft that heaved and pitched toward these sectors of

the beach. Awkward and slow, the assault boats were nearly stationary in the

water?Men plunged over the sides into deep water where they were immediately

picked off by machine gun fire.? The British and Canadian troops had fewer

casualties and met less resistance to the east. The British 3rd division

destroyed a battalion of panzer tanks that were sent in response to the attacks

on the beaches of Normandy.

By the end of D-day close to 150,000 Allied soldiers and their vehicles,

munitions, equipment, and provisions were unloaded on the beaches of Normandy.

In a week the troops totaled a half-million men. By July two million troops and

quarter of a million vehicles had landed in France.