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On Feb 6, 4:03 pm, "Dr.Colon.Osc...@gmail.com"
<Dr.Colon.Osc...@gmail.com> wrote: In terms of tanks actually landed at OMAHA, out of 62 Shermans in the
> Is there any information that shines some light on the number of
> tanks, that were operating at Omaha from H-hour till noon? (Including
> those that were destroyed during). In several accounts both in books
> and in my conversations with some "First Wavers", accounts of single
> tanks operating on eastern part of Omaha, pop up. Anbody have any
> leads or definitive information
741st Tank Battalion at least 54 were lost, with 29 DD tanks swamped,
2 M-4 75mm and 1 M-4 tank dozer lost when their LCT (A) was sunk. Of
the 32 tanks that landed, 1 M-4 tank dozer was damaged, 7 M-4 75mm
were knocked out by gunfire and mines, 5 M-4 75mm were tracked or
abandoned in the surf, while the cause of loss for 9 others is
unknown, so a total of 22. Out of 62 Shermans in the 743rd Tank
Battalion, at least 22 were reported lost, all on shore and none at
sea. So in the first case, 32 were "lost at sea" leaving 30 to fight
on the beach, where another 22 were lost on land, exactly the same
number lost on land by the other battalion. Furthermore, the 16th
Infantry, supported by the 30 tanks of the 741st Tank Battalion,
suffered about 971 casualties. The 116th Infantry, supported by the 62
tanks of the 743rd Tank Battalion, still suffered about 797
casualties.