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Which Omaha Beach sectors were assigned to the 16th Regiment?
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Omaha Beach
U.S. infantrymen wading from their landing craft toward Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
The 16th Regiment of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division was assigned to land at the Easy Red and Fox Green sectors of Omaha Beach.1