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What road did the U.S. 1st Infantry Division plan to cut after the Omaha Beach landing?

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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.

After landing at Omaha Beach on D-Day, the U.S. 1st Infantry Division had an ambitious set of objectives. Following the capture of the villages of Vierville, Saint-Laurent, and Colleville, the division was tasked with pushing inland to cut the Bayeux-Isigny road.1