I’m just waiting for someone to call me racist to my face, they are going to need a hell of a lot of dental work afterwards and I ain’t paying, I don’t care how many lawsuits they file and win.
Focusing on the men on Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944, around 8:50 - 9:30 AM. That photo is from a series in a movie reel.
The survivors’ boat had sunk about 100 ft from the beach water line, and some fellows already on the beach, had helped the survivors to shore.
Over the years since, various images from the movie reel, have had captions more accurate to the location and circumstances, while other captions are way off the mark. Also, some captions make the assembly of men to be of the same unit, but they are not -— the men, gathered on the beach, are a mix of the boat survivors plus others who rushed out from the base of a cliff area.
The location on the beach, is east of Point du Hoc and west of the Vierville Draw Exit D-1 (Vierville-sur-Mer). (As far as I have been able to figure; and anybody could correct me.)
High tide would be around 10:20 AM.
Some info I found, indicates:
The particular cliff area, east of Point du Hoc, had emplaced guns within the cliff, below the sod and trench floor level - entrance was via a trench. Unlike the already difficult to spot, concrete emplacements arranged to fire up and down the beach, these particular cliff-dwelling gun locations were more difficult to spot, because of the natural camo of overhanging sod and root systems.