 L / 16 eventually landed , 30 minutes late , to the left of Fox Green , taking casualties as the boats ran in and more as they crossed the 200 yards ( 180 m ) of beach . The terrain at the very eastern end of Omaha gave them enough protection to allow the 125 survivors to organize and begin an assault of the bluffs . They were the only company in the first wave able to operate as a unit . All the other companies were , at best , disorganized , mostly leaderless and pinned down behind the shingle with no hope of carrying out their assault missions . At worst , they had ceased to exist as fighting units . Nearly all had landed at least a few hundred yards off target , and in an intricately planned operation where each section on each boat had been assigned a specific task , this was enough to throw the whole plan off . 
