What Beach was it that alot of Americans where killed on as soon as they landed off of boats during WWII?

Answer 1

Omaha.

Answer 2

Omaha and Tarawa are the two best answers..........Pelieu and Iwo Jima were bloody affairs, but the fighting was off the beach.at both Omaha and especially Tarawa it was touch and go whether the Army ( Omaha) and Marines (Tarawa) were going to make it...in fact atone point the Marine commander radioed back to Pearl Harbor "Issue in Doubt".......it was the first amphibious landing the Marines had made against a defended beach; as was mentioned the tide calculations were wrong, and the landing forces had to wade in chest deep water across a coral reef almost a 1000 yards, under fire every step of the way...a miracle any made it ashore at all; a place where "uncommon valor was a common virtue" and both Americans and Japaneses discovered just how tough the United States Marines were...it wasn't til the tide came up and landing craft could make it to the beach and the battleship Maryland went into point blank range that the issue was decided........

there is also a body of thought that says Ike's planners in Europe , despite landing at Sicily North Africa and Italy, hadn't really understood what taking an defended beach was all about, and hadn't learned anything from MacArthur's operations in the southwest Pacific and the Marines in the Central Pacific; with a huge fleet available for gunfire support and thousands of planes 90 miles away in England, Omaha should have been much easier than it was...

Answer 3

Omaha Beach. Almost all of their tanks sank off-shore, the navy bombardement was ineffective, and the 29th Infantry Division untested.

"The official record of the 1st Infantry Division stated that "within 10 minutes of the ramps being lowered, [the leading] company had become inert, leaderless and almost incapable of action. Every officer and sergeant had been killed or wounded... It had become a struggle for survival and rescue". The approximately 40,000 men of V Corps incurred over 3,000 casualties, most in the first few hours."

""Bloody Omaha"
"The Wehrmacht had well prepared Atlantic Wall defenses, with various obstacles strewn along the beach, and the gentle downward slope providing an excellent field of fire. The German 352nd Division defending Omaha Beach was one of the better-trained units in the area. 27 of the 32 amphibious Sherman DD Tanks intended to give armored support foundered in the rough seas before reaching shore, due to a combination of adverse weather conditions (the tanks faced 2 meter-high waves which they could not withstand), improper navigation (the tanks approached in a stairstep pattern, exposing the low sides of their floatation devices to the incoming waves), and poor command (many of the tanks were launched approximately 5 kilometers offshore, too far away for the fragile tanks). The Allied air bombardment of the beach defenses prior to the landings was largely ineffective: most of the ordnance fell too far inland. The initial naval bombardment proved just as ineffective due to the short time allotted to the naval guns (40 minutes). The result was German defenses left largely intact when the first assault waves hit the beach. Soldiers who were not immediately killed found almost no defilade on the 182 meter-deep beach (at low tide), and what little cover provided by the beach obstacles was nullified by overlapping fields of fire pre-sighted by the Germans. Fogbanks and smoke from artillery fire created low visibility for the men on the beach, and many could only barely make out the cliffs ahead. The carefully planned assault became chaos as wind, waves, and current scattered most of the landing craft far from their assigned targets. Tired and seasick troops, weighed down by wet and sand-filled gear, could not run across the open sand (as often portrayed in movies). Most could only walk or trot the expanse toward the seawall."

Answer 4

Omaha Beach

Answer 5

Omaha: 2,400 casualties
http://www.answers.com/topic/omaha-beach

"...Omaha Beach, E of the Vire, the scene of the fiercest fighting."

"Under the V Corps, two regiments of the First Infantry Division and one of the Twenty-ninth landed on Omaha Beach, between Bayeux and Carentan. Sharp bluffs, strong defenses, lack of airborne assistance, and the presence of a powerful German division produced near-catastrophic difficulties. Throughout much of the day the fate of this part of the invasion hung in the balance, but inch by inch American troops forced their way inland, so that when night came the beachhead was approximately a mile deep. At a nearby cliff called Pointe du Hoe, the First Ranger Battalion eliminated a German artillery battery."
http://www.answers.com/topic/normandy-campaign

Answer 6

You're probably thinking of the Marine landing at Tarawa. I believe 1,200 died in a few hours. The tidal calculation was wrong and the Marines had to wade in a long distance under enemy fire. The psychological affect on the American public was similar to Shiloh early in the Civil War: a shocking realization that the war was going to be very costly.

Answer 7

You are probably thinking of Normandy Beach...although American forces landed at Omaha, Utah and Juno also.....