victor brombert was with the first american armored division to land on omaha beach. y what he experienced that day. >> brombert: i saw immense debris. wounded people. dead people. i remember being up on a cliff the first night, over omaha beach. and we were strafed and i said to myself, "now, it's the end," because i could-- you could feel the machine gun bullets. >> wertheim: is that when you first realized, "i'm-- i'm in a war here?" >> brombert: yes, i realized that i was afraid. i never calculated that there is such a thing as terror, fear. so i experienced viscerally, fear. >> wertheim: on the front lines from normandy onwards, the ritchie boys fought in every major battle in europe, collecting tactical intelligence, interrogating prisoners and civilians, all in service of winning the war. when we come back, we'll hear about some of the surprising ways they forged connections with the enemy in order to extract strategic information. ( ticking ) >> cbssportshq.com is presented by progressive insurance. sports news from today. the season concluded with pant rick ca