 With the beach assault phase completed the RCTs reorganized into infantry regiments and battalions and over the course of the next two days achieved the original D @-@ Day objectives . On the 1st divisional front the 18th Infantry Regiment blocked an attempt by two companies from the 916th and 726th Grenadiers to break out of WN @-@ 63 and Colleville , both of which were subsequently taken by the 16th Infantry Regiment which also moved on Port @-@ en @-@ Bessin . The main advance was made by the 18th Infantry Regiment , with the 3rd battalion of the 26th Infantry Regiment attached , south and south @-@ eastwards . The heaviest opposition was encountered at Formigny where troops of the 2nd battalion 915th Grenadiers had reinforced the headquarters troops of 2nd battalion 916th Grenadiers . Attempts by 3 / 26 and B / 18 with support from the tanks of B / 745 were held off and the town did not fall until the morning of June 8 . The threat of an armored counterattack kept the 18th Infantry Regiment on the defensive for the rest of June 8 . The 26th Infantry Regiment 's three battalions , having been attached to the 16th , 18th and 115th Regiments the previous day , spent June 8 reassembling before pushing eastwards , forcing the 1st battalion of the German 726th Grenadiers to spend the night extricating itself from the pocket thus forming between Bayeux and Port @-@ en @-@ Bessin . By the morning of June 9 the 1st Division had established contact with the British XXX Corps , thus linking Omaha with Gold . 
