"All the time the German machine-gunners were mowing people down. There were so many bodies lying in the water they stopped bringing any more troops ashore because it was freaking people out to see all these guys dead. We ran across the beach as fast as we could and I picked up a gun on the way. We got up against the cliff face and it was so steep the Germans couldn’t shoot down at us.
My biggest fear, and it scared me more than anything, not death, death was nothing; it was the fact that I would be buried on foreign soil.
I did what I could, It was a pretty wild day. I walked by bodies of the dead stacked on the beach like cordwood. They were three or four high, in a row stretching 200 to 300 feet. I didn't care to look at the faces, I was thinking they never knew how it turned out." ‐ John Trippon, 6th Engineer Special Brigade, Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, June 6th, 1944. #hardfucks #dday #stayzero #zerofoxtrot