Failure at Omaha Beach could have stymied the entire D-Day invasion

This is the second installment of a look back at the events around the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944.
It was stormy. The decision to go or not was filled with anxiety.  On the eve of battle Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower sat down and wrote two notes to President Franklin Roosevelt. One gave the forces involved credit for a hard fought victory, the other put blame on himself for the failure of the invasion despite the bravery shown by his men.

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