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Some drown. others barely made it ashore. men like lawrence never forget. >> i got this about noon or a little later. i laid over on that shelf until 8:00 that night and watched it. i saw it all. they couldn't get out. >> brannon, 94 now, is from morristown tennessee. his days forever shaped by what happened here 70 years ago. >> the first battalion hit right down there. germans couldn't go -- they killed 800 of them right there. there were bodies floating 200 yards out in the water when i went out that night. they moved them out of the way for us to go back out. it was just hell. really. you ...

Omaha beach was a fortress, machine guns had clear and interlocking fields of fire from cement pill boxes, men dropped in the water, caught in this a buzz saw of bullets as soon as the gates opened. some drowned, others barely made it ashore. men like lawrence brannon never forget. >> i got this about noon or a little later. i laid on that shelf right down there until 8:00 that night and watched it, i saw it, saw it all. i saw a boat with 300 guys in it burn up. they can't get out. >> brannon, 94 now, is from morris town, tennessee. his days forever shaped by what happened here 70 years ago. >...

I saw a vote with 300 guys in it blowing up. they couldn't get out. >> brannon, 94 now, is from morristown, tennessee. his days forever shaped by what happened here 70 years ago. >> the first battalion hit right down there. the germans were there and they couldn't go. they killed 800 right against that area. everybody about 200 yards out in the water when i went out that night. they moved them out of the way for us to go back out. and it was just hell, really, you know? i actually saw over, i'd say, over 2,000 people killed that i could see. i lived 1,000 years that day. >> at day's end, more ...