cominterncom, loudspeakers the boats are going ashore. >> the first of sea borne troops landed on omaha beach. giving troops of the initial bombardment hope. >> it was a mile 1/2 east of where it was supposed to, because the tide coming in created a current that moved landing craft eastward, it was not as heavily defended as they intended. >> we had a three-proanprong mi, find the guns and destroy them, and get out to the coast road, establish a road black s roadbls can't get from out beach to omaha beach, and to destroy all german cu communications. >> groups of landing crafts were