WWII Naval Combat Demolition Units Monument Project from omaha 2024 Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 12 min 23 sec ✓ Published: 29-Mar-2024
Description: June 6, 1944: Sixteen 50-yard gaps were required on Omaha Beach to land the planned 2,000 troops per hour for the D-Day invasion in 1944.Sixteen teams of (NCDU) Naval Combat Demolition Units, each composed of seven Navy men and five Army engineers, were tasked to clear through the beach obstacles. One of the first teams ashore was wiped out as it landed, and another lost all but one man as it prepared to set off its lengths of twenty-pound explosive charges. Of the 175 NCDU men at Omaha, thirt
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