How high were the cliffs overlooking Omaha Beach?

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D-Day: Omaha Beach — Omaha Beach U.S. infantrymen wading from their landing craft toward Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

The cliffs overlooking Omaha Beach were 30 metres (approximately 98 feet) high. These heights provided the German defending forces with a strategic advantage, allowing them to deliver plunging fire onto the American troops as they landed during the Normandy Invasion on June 6, 1944.1