WN 72 consisted of two bunkers connected by trenches, as well as two Tobruk bunkers and other machine gun positions. Since WN 72 was the best-constructed stronghold at Omaha, and WN 73 was a small strongpoint, I’m going to assume that Powell took on the former, or, perhaps, a combination of the two.
Mike Powell must be assaulting WN 72 or WN 73. On the western side, WN 72, and on the cliffs further west, WN 73.įrom the location of the valley in Allied Assault, the picture above appears to be on the western side, meaning that the game’s Rangers and their fictional Lt. On the eastern side of the Vierville Valley was WN 71. At Omaha Beach, the fortifications behind the beach obstacles consisted of 15 “resistance nests” or Widerstandsnestern (WN), numbered 60 through 74.Īt Omaha, the Rangers disembarked from their LCVPs and faced the defenses surrounding the D-1 Exit, the most fortified section of Omaha Beach. The German stronghold (Widerstandsnest) as it appears in Allied Assault’s Omaha Beach mission.īetween the Allied invasion force of Operation Overlord and a foothold in continental Europe was the Atlantic Wall, a massive defensive fortification that stretched from the Arctic Ocean to Spain.
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