The Beast of Omaha (Stories from D-Day)

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first the steel helmet fell off than his chin fell on severloh watched as the water sprayed up where the machine-gun bursts had landed and when the small fountains came closer to the gis they threw themselves down very soon the first bodies were drifting in the waves of the rising tide he aims slightly beyond the dark shapes that were the corpses of GIS has more men drifted in the tide behind them in a short time the Americans down there had been taken down severloh claimed he fired his machine gun for nine straight hours firing around twelve thousand rounds he only took breaks to reload or to let the weapon cool down while reloading one or two Americans would take the opportunity to move closer only to be shot down by one of the other Gunners in the bunker as his mg42 cooled down several low fired a rifle instead after his regular ammo ran out he used rounds intended for anti-aircraft fire where every fifth round was a tracer round this led to his detection by the USS Frankfurt he was fired upon he took cover just in time before the shells could hit him although shrapnel had hit his face his gun was damaged and finally rendered useless it's hot barrel had even caused a small grass fire the shells were now causing havoc on their position and some US soldiers were getting closer to his position it was time to get out of there Frere King shook several OHS hand and ordered him to retreat several oh and his fellow Germans retreated from the bunker and they all took cover from the American gun fire only himself and another German soldier Kurt Vonnegut made it when Veronica got to severloh he told him frere King had been shot in the head together they reached the nearby village of Koval cermet where their battalion HQ was and several all received medical care the Germans including several all surrendered to American troops On June 7th 1944 severloh was sent to Boston Massachusetts as a prisoner of war before being sent to England in 1946 where he worked as a forced labour until March 1947 severloh then returned to Germany to his family's farm in 1960 several Oh contacted American veteran chaplain David Silva who had been shot three times at Omaha Beach the men met several times and their story is featured in a documentary by Alexander Chihuahua about their unusual friendship path of forgiveness a long way back to Omaha Beach severe lows memoir wn-62 a German soldiers memories of the defense of Omaha Beach Normandy June 6 1944 was published in the year 2000 severloh claimed that he took out more than 1,000 men most likely more than 2,000 there is no way to substantiate several Louis assertions and many historians doubt their validity the total US casualties at Omaha Beach were between nineteen hundred and three thousand Heinrich several law became known as the Beast of Omaha but this was only given to him by the post-war media several law was actually deeply haunted by his actions but noted that he had a duty to lieutenant fracking for several O's claims to be accurate he would have been responsible for most of the casualties at Omaha Beach historians don't doubt his significance in the event nor do they question the effectiveness of the machine guns on Omaha Beach but no exact totals for one lone gunner can be known several ou would die and walk in North Germany in 2006 at the age of 82

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Keywords: simple history, animated history, educational, education, beast of omaha, Heinrich Severloh, germany, omaha beach, d-day, Wehrmacht, Omaha Beach, Widerstandsnest 62, resistance nest 62, w62, Bernhard Frerking, WN-62, MG42, us, american, defense, bunker, USS Frankford, landings, Kurt Warnecke, Franz Gockel, insane, strange stories, heer

Id: bfQdON0saRM

Length: 8min 13sec (493 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 21 2019

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