Omaha Beach on D-Day - what happened? The story in 10 minutes
What happened on Omaha Beach on D-Day, june 6, 1944? I have visited the place several times and made a lot of photo's: check them out at http://www.omaha-beach.eu/ .
I also shot some video here and there with my phone camera as I was walking around looking for the key points to photograph, and now have used these images to tell the story of Omaha as I see it - in 10 minutes. Contains footage of some of the key points like Fox Red, Dog Green, Easy red, Widerstandsnest 60, 62 and 72. Phone camera quality so expect no miracles but the story is worth telling. Lest We Forget!
Music is by Charles Ives, a great American composer of the early 20th century. For further reading I'd suggest the excellent books by Cornelias Ryan - "The Longest Day" and Joseph Balkoski - "Omaha Beach".
Omaha Beach is well worth a visit. It "breaths" history and at times has a near magical atmoshere surrounding it. Also make sure to visit the US Cemetery on top of the bluffs and pay respect to the thousands that lay there so we may live in freedom.
More footage I shot earlier (also at Pointe Du Hoc and British sectors) is in an older youtube movie from 2009: • A trip to the Normandy battlefields -...
