Omaha

[hummingofevil]

Could you all help please:

Is this song about DDay? I think it is but noone will discuss it with me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP3dT5TBug4

"Omaha"

It's hard to remember Pittsburgh properly
It's hard to recall what I did in D.C.
No vivid remembrance of things in L.A.
The times and the places have all slipped away

In one too brief minute
My mind saw it all
The time and the place
Twelve o'clock noon

Omaha
Omaha

It seems that I found everything that I wanted
All in Omaha
Everything's there my love and my laughter
It's all in Omaha

I'm going back to Omaha
My Omaha
I'm going back to Omaha
Oh my Omaha

The rest of the world doesn't matter
When you find what you're after

Bells and candles – clocks that chime
Ribbons glass - lights that shine
Coloured paper – shiny beads
Everything that I need
You gave to me
In Omaha

[hummingofevil]

"Very little went as planned during the landing at Omaha. Difficulties in navigation caused the majority of landing craft to miss their targets throughout the day. The defenses were unexpectedly strong, and inflicted heavy casualties on landing U.S. troops. Under heavy fire, the engineers struggled to clear the beach obstacles; later landings bunched up around the few channels that were cleared. Weakened by the casualties taken just in landing, the surviving assault troops could not clear the heavily defended exits off the beach. This caused further problems and consequent delays for later landings. Small penetrations were eventually achieved by groups of survivors making improvised assaults, scaling the bluffs between the most heavily defended points. By the end of the day, two small isolated footholds had been won, which were subsequently exploited against weaker defenses further inland, thus achieving the original D-Day objectives over the following days"

[hummingofevil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c22lmwOmuhY

This version seems to suggest I'm on the right lines.

[hummingofevil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S1xoPpkMrg

Just digging though youtube now. Im in tears.