The low tide show that beach is desert and silent, it is scattered of very visible obstacles everywhere. There is much black smoke, that's bad point of view for us, it covers the horizon and it renders difficult to see what happen in the hill and what kind a welcome nazy are ready to start up. All this smoke is produced by only an half hour of cannonade, yes it has hit hard the beach but it's only an half hour... In the meantime lots of the Landing Crafts are in the sea and they are turning round and round in circle, just waiting for the command. Today is cold, humid, just a fucked rainy day. A cold wind comes from North-Nord/Est towards South-Sud/Ovest and pushes out the fog and the smoke along the coast and towards the french land just with to Sud-Ovest direction. A very very weak sunlight leaks timidly between cloudy sky from East. Everyone hope for the best. The radio speak something -BEACH IS CLEAR! GO ON!- Damn! watch is out of order for much time, i hurt it, may be sea water or salt?! The war plan would sign that probably it could be the H-hour. That is approximately the 6:30AM, but this is only the conventional hour of the jet lag one of the D-Day of the 06.06.44 so it's the 7:30AM hour of Paris. It could be also the 8:10AM o'clock as the 7:10AM the hour of Paris. Fortunately the hour H is coming, the wait was heavy. Landing Crafts try to align although the bad sea, so they go direct on the coast. The rumble of the motors is made much much powerful and continuous, the Landing Craft route from circular comes to zig-zag, every boats keep trying the assault line. The sea was always horrible for troops, 3 days with no stop, too many troops are tired, sick and lots of them think that things can go from bad to worse, especially if boat sunk for a big wave. Sea sickness is very a bad bad problem, anyone can't fix the look outside the boat, so a small problem is bigger and bigger. Anyone is dry, fucked cold waves come on the boats from everywhere. Well! nobody is clever and clear, the same dirty uniform for 3 long days, everyone is full of antigas liquid, long beard itches. Most of soldiers need a warm shower, have shave, have an hot caffe' and sandwich, then have a bed with clean sheet too. A very few soldiers sleeped last night, lots of stress, bad sea, bad places for 3 days. There was too many emotionl tension for the battle, then the ships and airplane around us...