The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944. you and your squad were in a LCVP higgins boat heading towards Omaha beach, you could hear the sound of the MG-42's firing and explosions from artillery from the beach cliffs along with the allied ships firing there massive cannons at the defenses, the door drops and the soldiers start piling out of the boat.