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100 1  Mehlo, Noel F.,|cJr.,|eauthor. 
245 10 D-Day general :|bhow Dutch Cota saved Omaha Beach on June 
       6, 1944|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cNoel F. Mehlo Jr.
250    Unabridged. 
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511 1  Read by Tim Dixon. 
520    Omaha was the make-or-break Allied beach on D-Day-in 
       (perhaps) the make-or-break campaign of World War II. If 
       American soldiers couldn't gain a foothold there, then D-
       Day was unlikely to succeed. On June 6, 1944, U.S. troops 
       on Omaha suffered the worst casualties of any of the five 
       Allied invasion beaches-so many casualties, and so much 
       tactical difficulty, that Omaha almost didn't succeed. One
       big reason why Americans gained a foothold on Omaha was 
       Gen. Norman "Dutch" Cota. A graduate of the West Point 
       class of 1917 (alongside famous classmates Matthew Ridgway,
       Mark Clark, and Lightning Joe Collins), Norm Cota played 
       football with Dwight Eisenhower, who graduated two years 
       earlier. From March 1941 to February 1943, Cota served 
       with the famous 1st Infantry Division, the Big Red One, as
       division intelligence officer, plans/training officer, and
       finally chief of staff. He performed so well in the North 
       Africa campaign that he was sent to England to help plan D
       -Day. After laying the tactical groundwork for the 
       amphibious landings, Cota was made assistant division 
       commander of the 29th Infantry Division. On the eve of D-
       Day, he told his men, "You're going to find confusion. The
       landing craft aren't going in on schedule, and people are 
       going to be landed in the wrong place. Some won't be 
       landed at all. . . . We must improvise, carry on, not lose
       our heads." On June 6, 1944, under heavy fire, Cota landed
       with the second wave of the 29th Infantry Division on 
       Omaha Beach, about an hour after the start of the 
       invasion. He personally rallied the survivors of the 
       landings and led the opening of one of the first exits off
       Omaha. Cota seemed to be everywhere that day. Coming upon 
       a group of Rangers, the general told them, "Rangers, lead 
       the way" (hence the Rangers' motto). He is also known for 
       saying, "Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. 
       Let us go inland and be killed." And, to a captain 
       uncertain how to proceed: "I'll tell you what, captain.You
       and your men start shooting at them. I'll take a squad of 
       men, and you and your men watch carefully. I'll show you 
       how to take a house with Germans in it." Having 
       demonstrated the task, Cota asked the officer, "Do you 
       understand? Do you know how to do it now? . . . I won't be
       around to do it for you again. I can't do it for 
       everybody." Great quips-which American military history 
       will always remember and which show the character, in 
       every sense, of Dutch Cota. Cota was a fighter-a fighting 
       general, a D-Day general-and his contribution to D-Day 
       will remain his rallying of demoralized troops and his 
       blazing the trail toward the breakout and victory on 
       Omaha. Ted Roosevelt Jr., who landed at Utah Beach, has 
       always received credit as the D-Day general (like Cota, 
       Roosevelt also demanded that he land on D-Day-and then 
       died of a heart attack a month later), but Cota is the 
       hero-general of the day, having landed early on D-Day on 
       bloody Omaha. Portrayed by Robert Mitchum in the grand D-
       Day film The Longest Day, Cota has not yet received his 
       due-and there's a campaign now afoot to award him a 
       belated Medal of Honor. His story cries out to be told. 
       Now, with the cooperation of the Cota family, Noel F. 
       Mehlo Jr. tells the compelling story Dutch Cota on Omaha 
       Beach, revealing new information and never-before-seen 
       photos. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Cota, Norman D.|q(Norman Daniel),|cSr.,|d1893-1971. 
610 10 United States.|bArmy.|bInfantry Division, 29th|vBiography.
650  0 Operation Neptune. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xCampaigns|zFrance|zNormandy. 
650  0 Generals|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xAmphibious operations. 
700 1  Dixon, Tim. 
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