Omaha

This story ties in with the Omaha Beach Level on MOH: Allied Assualt. SO you'll see some characters and read some dialogue from that mission. Enjoy!
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Normandy, Omaha Beach: Charlie Sector; 0700 Hours

The landing craft rocked precariously on the waters of Omaha Beach, explosions all around were proof the Axis knew of the assault. Landon O'Connel shivering from the cold and the nerves, soon his craft would be landing and he would most surely die. "My time has come, I just know it..." he thought to himself. Other soldiers were barfing from a combination of sea-sickness and nerves, the smell was horrible. Lieutenant Mike Powell was standing in front of him, "I dont think I can do this sir!" he yelled to the Lieutenant. "Sure you can, trust me! Ive been through the attack on Arzew, infiltrated a maritime base in Norway, and Im still in one piece, trust me soldier, Ive got yor back!" Landon still didn't feel confident, but he felt a little better knowing Lieutenant Powell was with him. "30 Seconds!" the landing craft operator yelled. Landons muscles bagan to tense up, an explosion on the landing craft left of them killed every soldier on board and reminded the men of the constant threat. Another explosion not 50 feet to the right shook their craft. "10 Seconds!" Landon prepared for his "inevitable" death. "5 Seconds!" "This is it. Here I go." He thought to him self. That was it, the landing craft door dropped and all the soldiers ran out, an MG42 had marked teir craft and the first six soldiers were down, Landon felt bad he had to run over his fallen comrades but he had no choice.

The water was deep, Landon fell in up to his chest and had to wade about 10 feet to the nearest landing obstacle, the noise was deafening, the MG42 fire, the Flak 88 cannons pounding the beach, the return fire of the allies, and worst of all the screams of other allied sodiers. Landon overheard to other allies talking, or yelling rather.
"Where's the tech support sir!?!"
"It's either destroyed, or at the bottom of the channel, either way were on our own!"
"We cant take the beach without tech support sir!"
"All we can do here is die! Keep moving soldier!"

And with that the two allies moved on, unfortunately Landon knew the Officer was right, he had to keep moving. He took a step forward and a bullet whizzed past his head, he kept going. Another 10 feet, he crouched behind a tank trap. Landon ripped the plastic cover off of his M1 Gerand and loaded a clip. As he stared at the water he noticed it was tinted pink, there that much blood in it. Landon felt sick, the helmet of a brother in arms washed ashore, dead fish littered the sand. Already hundreds of allied soldiers had died, Landon didn't know how they could possily succeed. They had been sent to their death.

Landon got up and ran another 20 feet to an ally, he at first he thought the soldier was resting, then he realized he was dead, sniper shot to the head. A nearby explosion shook the beach, "Damn! Don't these guys ever let up!" Five feet away a medic was working on a wounded soldier, there was no hope for him, his intestine was hanging out of his torso. Landon looked away but he could still hear the soldier screaming for his mother. Landon ran another 10 feet, this time the soldier he sat by was alive."Christ, the Krauts show no mercy!" With that the soldier picked up his B.A.R. and let off a short burst."I think I hit one!" the soldier got up and ran off. Landon noticed a soldier running to his left, a whistle was heard coming from the sky. With a huge explosion the soldier was gone in a cloud of sand and rock. Landon got up and ran to an obstacle to his left, this put him closer to Lieutenant Powell. Another soldier was already with Powell, the Lieutenant took up his M1, aimed, and fired. The soldier next to him laughed, Powell smiled. "My god sir you got him right in the head! Holy sh-" the soldier never finished his sentence, an MG42 took off is head. Powell ducked and cursed. Crouching he ran to a nearby obstacle.

Landon put his rifle to his shoulder, he closed one eye, took aim at a gunner in the forward-most bunker, and fired off half his clip. He had missed every shot but managed to shake the gunner up. He took aim again and fired off the second half of his clip, this time succeeding and filling the gunner's chest with hot lead. Landon smiled then remembered where he was, he loaded and new clip into his M1 and proceeded to the nearest tank trap. Another explosion, this one failed to hit anyone, a second explosion slosely followed the first, this one took out 3 soldiers huddled together. Landon pulled out his cantine and took a drink, he decided to wait at his current location for a couple minutes, despite the obvious danger of the act. He turned, and fired a couple shots up at the bunker, without aiming this time, he figured he had missed. He watched a rocket team come up behind an obstacle, they loaded the bazooka, and fired a shell, apparently the Nazi's had noticed the team as well because as soon as they had fired one shot an MG42 was turned on the, the man who loaded the shells was taken out first as he had less protection, a sniper shot rang loud and the man holding the bazooka fell to the ground. Landon heard someone scream something about tech support, he looked back and notied more landing craft arriving. Out of the craft came jeeps and tanks, the Flak cannons became more vigorous foring on the tech support.

The men back at the battleships had obviously noted this because the fire from the ships also became more vigorous. As Landon watched a bunker all the axis in it either bailed out or ran the back, running for the door Landon supposed, a deafening boom was heard and the bunker exploded, not only were many axis soldiers taken out but also about 5 allies.A huge chunk of rock flew from the bunker and smashed them. Landon had forgotten he needed to keep moving and got up ad ran to a crater. He fired off a clip at a sniper post atop the cliff. He noticed how close he was to the shingle and he ran as fast as he could, a few other soldiers ran at the same time, one of them was shot in the leg, he fell to the ground a mercilessly an MG42 tore his injured body to shreads. Once Landon reached the shingle he looked back, a jeep was driving up the beach, a gunner on the back, an explosion sounded and the jeep was flipped. Two soldiers ran up behind it, salvaged the machine gun and mounted it on the side of the jeep. They fired the gun until they were noticed and an MG42 fired at them, they ducked. Apparently the gunner had hit the gas tank because the jeep exploded and the bodys of the two men were flung back about 10 feet.

Lieutenant Powell showed up at the shingle, it was time to blow the barbed wire. He looked at Landon and smiled, "Told you I had your back!" Landon looked at him confused, "I only saw you like twice! And you didn't even look at me!" Powell looked back at Landon, "You got ahead of me, I was about to run over to you, then you ran off! Lucky I was there though, I noticed a sniper take aim and I blew his head off!"Powell said with a laugh."Oh, sorry sir! Didn't know you saved my life!" Another explosion, the men carrying the bangalores had been knocked down, but not killed, that is, until a gunner on an MG42 noticed them and took them out. "We've lost the bangalores! Powell! Run down there, and grab those bangalores!" Lieutenant Powell got up and ran to the bangalores, he almost got hit by MG42 fire but rolled and narrowly escaped, he brought the bangalore torpedos up to the captain, and they were passed out down the line, the bangalores were packed in under the wire. "Everybody down!" Everyone ducked, several explosions were heard, that was the signal, the bangalores had gone off and the wire was blown.

Landon ran through a hole in the wall of wire, looking back only once, soldiers were still runing up the beach, several tanks had made it about 50 feet up the beach and were firing at the enemy lines. Some reinforcements had arrived, but the ferocious battle was far from over...
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I dont know If ill continue with this or not, this is the first time Ive written a war story on a war that actually happened btw, so tell me what you think. But I dunno, I kinda like it ends like that, I may continue anyway though.

Oh btw i didnt mean to offend anyone by aying Krauts and stuff, but I was trying to be realistic. Sorry if I offended you.

That's some good shoting...err...writing. It was amusing. Heh. I'm not a big fan of war stories, so i can't judge you too well with the subject. Your writing style is nice, but it could use a little more ....style, i guess. Try to make yourself different from everyone else. Other than that, i thought it was worth a read.

Thx I appreciate the feedback, and Ill work on distinguishing my writing style

I liked it really. It was dramatic and unlike most strories, you tell that many died. In my own stories i tell like 4 or 3 died, but many more died, i just don't get to tell it. Nice nice!

thx, this is my first WWII story so im actually surprised im getting compliments rather than getting alot of ppl telling me to improve on it lol

Ive decided to continue the story, tonight I went and saw an independent movie called Downfall, it was about the last days of Hitler's life and the days the Red Army invaded Berlin, and even though it wasn't about Omaha it inspired me, so here it is...
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Normandy, Omaha Beach:Charlie Sector 0775 Hours

As Landon ran through the hole in the barbed wire a shell landed exactly where he had been moments before, the axis was firing on the shingle, now nearly no where was safe. About ten men ran ahead of him, before Landon looked ahead of him he heard a huge explosion, a crater was all that was left of the two men in front, "Watch out for the mine fields!" Lieutenant Powell yelled. The men in the bunker to the right of them had taken notice of the oncoming allies. With a quick burst of an MG42 the medic was down. Snipers ruthlessly picked mean off the beach and men from Landon's squad. A guy named Peter Delphi, a friend of Landon's threw a grenade into one of the sniper nests, with a boom the sandbags exploded in a cloud of dust and the sniper was thrown down the twenty foot cliff and landed with a thud on the ground. Powell grabbed his radio, "We're gonna need some cover over here, we've passed the barbed wire and we are unable to continue. Over." he paused. The radio crackled and the voice of Commander Smith was heard, "Alright Lieutenant, we'll get some tanks on those bunkers and I think I gotta rocket team for those nests. Over." Powell put the radio to his ear, "Roger that. Over and out." All of the sudden a shell from a tank went flying over the heads of the squad, the body of an axis soldier landed in front of them, Peter ran out to it and grabbed the Walther, "Alright! I got me a kraut pistol!" He pocketed the P-38 and waited for Powell's orders, "Ok, we've got the cover we need, you guys see those craters?" without waiting for an answer he continued. "I want you to run from crater to crater to avoid enemy fire, take out what enemys you see on the way. Alright, Johnson, Delphi, your up first, wait for my signal." Powell looked around the edge of the bunker's base. He put his Gerand to his shoulder, the others followed his lead, as soon as he fired up at the sniper nests Johnson and Delphi ran for it, they hopped into the first crater. Johnson was too slow, before the squad knew what had happened, an MG42 had taken off his head. Delphi however, made it into the crater, he put his Thompson up to his shoulder, took aim, and fired at an axis sniper, the man plunged off the cliff to his death. Delphi got up, jumped out of the crater, ran about 8 steps, and boom. Another casualty to a mine field. "Damn! Alright boys watch out for those mines. O'Connel, your next, your comin' with me." Landon and Powell stood at the side of the bunker, "At my signal, give us cover." Powell ordered the three men that remained. "Alright...Covering Fire!" at that the men fired at the axis soldiers and Landon and Powell jumped into the first crater. "O'Connel, you see that guy in that bunker up there?" Powell pointed out a gunner, "Yes sir!" Landon replied. "He's waitin for us to get outta this crater, bring your B.A.R. up over the edge and take him out!" Landon did as he was told. He slowly edged his gun over the edge, took careful aim, and unloaded half the clip into the gunner's head. "Go! Next Crater!" Landon and Powell jumped outta the crater and ran for the next, careful to avoid any potential mine fields. They hopped into the next crater, this time they didn't have to take any axis out, "Wait for my signal...Go!" again they sprinted, but this time to an enemy trench. The last thing Landon saw before he fell in was the last three soldiers taking off for the first crater. He heeard an explosion and nearby screams, he got the feeling him and the Lieutenant were the only people who were gonna make it into the bunker. But on the contrary to what Landin believed there was already an ally in the bunker, two of them in fact, they were fending off axis defenders from the trench, they had taken out three but another three remained. Without warning one of the axis soldiers fired a rifle at one of the allies. It hit him in the side and he fell to the ground. Landon fired his B.A.R. into one of the axis chest, but it was too late all three axis fored at the other allied soldier at once, he was down, it was two on two. Powell was about to fire at the center axis soldier, but a sudden voice stopped him "Incoming!" Landon and Powell ducked, a grenade fell into the trench at the axis' feet, they jumped away but one of them was killed but the explosion, apparently the other was injured by shrapnel, but not too badly to get up, he aimed his gun at Powell and was about to pull the trigger, but a bullet shot straight through his head. The axis soldier fell to the ground and an ally jumped into the trench. "Howdy fellas!" he said to Landon and Powell, he looked at the injured ally, the ally stoo up and leaned against the trench wall, "Ill be alright." he said, he was clutching his wound. "So what's the situation here?" the new ally asked, "We got a gunner on an MG42 'round the corner here. Needs to be takin out" the injured soldier replied. The new ally ran around the corner and a multitude of MG42 bullets tore holes in his body. "Damned krauts!" Powell yelled, he pulled out a grenade and pulled the pin, he threw it around the corner, adn as soon as htye heard the boom they rushed around the corner, madly firing off their guns. Before Landon turned the corner he saw the injured soldier fall to the ground in a heap, another casualty of war. When they were sure the area was clear, they entered the bunker. Landon was glad to be off the beach but was afraid of what might be in the bunker...
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There may be one or two more sections of this story, that's all I plan on making, but Ive had an idea, I could continue the story past this part, and record the soldiers stories throughout the entire war, or for a while anyway. I dunno, it's up to you guys, tell me what you think, if I should continue past Omaha or just end it when they win. Dunno, you tell me.