Info Board Pebble Bank

Information sign on the pebble bank at Omaha Beach with the following text:
Landing at 6.30am on 6 June, the 16th Regiment of the 1st US Infantry Division suffered very heavy losses. Almost all of the amphibious tanks that accompanied them had sunk in the sea and the only precarious cover was the pebble bank.

This is the only sector of the beach to have conserved this important bank, which previously covered almost all of Omaha Beach. The soldiers lying on the pebbles were out of sight of the German machine guns, but they remained exposed to mortar and artillery shells, and to splinters of stone.

On the right, you will notice the blockhouse that contained one of the beach's only two 88mm-anti-tank guns. A tank managed to destroy it by 7.10am.

At the back of the beach, a long anti-tank ditch barred the road to Colleville. It quickly became used as a shelter for an American first-aid station.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Koos Winkelman