The invasion of Normandy was very bloody and insane. The attack started at midnight with airstrikes, and at 6:30am the ground attack began. Germans would have their machine guns set on the door of the boats that the soldiers came out of, so that when it opened 2-3 soldiers were killed immediately. If they survived this, then they had to crawl through 300 yards of mine and wire beaches. The first couple waves of soldiers were almost doomed. Hardly any survived in these waves. Some beaches met little resistance from the Germans, but Omaha did not. The allies were able to win this because they worked with each other, had more men, and had better technology.