this is general omar bradley. this is about as close as you are going to get a general officer to say we screwed up. "despite the setbacks that we had suffered as a result of bad weather and ineffective bombings, i was shaken to find that we had gone against omaha beach with so thin a margin of safety. had a less experienced division then the big red one, the first infantry division, stumbled into this crack position, it might easily have been thrown back into the channel." bookal omar bradley in his , "a soldier's story," acknowledges that. things were very bad at omaha beach. let me conclude with these thoughts. i want you to think about this. in terms of the historiography, omaha beach, of the five beaches, was the most difficult. as a consequence, many historians have taken a look at this and said it was a tactical failure. that the commander of the big red one, he is in part at fault. i make the other argument. i make the argument that the overall plan, the operational level, montgomery's plan, bradley's plan

this is omar bradley. this is about as close as you'll get a general officer say we screwed up. despite the setbacks that we had suffered as a result of bad weather and ineffective bombings, i was shaken to find that we had gone against omaha beach with so thin a margin of safety. have a less experienced the vision than the first infantry stumbled into this crack resistance, it might easily have been thrown back into the channel. journal omar bradley in his book , "a soldier story," acknowledges that. very bad at omaha beach. let me conclude with these thoughts. i want you to think about this. ,n terms of the historiography omaha beach was the most difficult. as a consequence, many historians have said it was a tactical failure. that the commander of the big red one, he is in part at fault. i make the other argument, that the overall plan, the operational level, montgomery's plan, bradley's plan, was flawed. what happened at omaha beach could've happened at utah beach, could've happened in the other beaches. it was not the tactical guys. the tactical guys are good against the pl

omar bradley. this is about as close you will get to an officer saying we screwed up. about as close. despite the setbacks we suffered as a result of bad weather and ineffective bombing, i was shaken to find that we had gone against omaha beach with so thin a margin of safety. had a less experienced divisions in the first infantry stumbled into this crack, they might have been thrown back into the channel. book, theadley in his soldiers story, acknowledging that. things are very bad in omaha beach. these conclude with thoughts. i want you to think about this. omaha beach was the most difficult. as a consequence of that, many historians look at it and say it was a tactical failure, that the commander of the big red one, he the fall and cause of this thing. i think the other argument. the overall planning, the operational level, montgomery's plan was the fall and cause of s flawed. what happened at omaha beach could have happened at utah beach for any of the others. it was not the tactical guys. the tactical guys argued against the plan put in place. it was the operation