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Originally Posted by Shag
I didn't do a formal tour, but did some of the BoB tour on my own, and had the same experience - harrowing, to put it mildly. Pointe du Hoc was absolutely unbelievable - the size and quantity of the craters was insane, and the idea of scaling that cliff is crazy. Walking on Omaha, and seeing the pillboxes still in the bluffs was incredibly humbling - it's almost inconceivable the beach was taken. The feats of that day are truly incredible.
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Agreed. So, so humbling. Visited a few years ago. Looking out the pill boxes on Omaha with the tide out and I teared up. Our guys were sitting ducks... Not to mention the church where US medics took care of german and Allied wounded and there is still blood stains on the pews with stained glass windows featuring American paratroopers...