 In the meantime , the original defender at Omaha , the 352nd Division , was being steadily reduced . By the morning of June 9 the division was reported as having been " ... reduced to ' small groups ' ... " while the 726th Grenadier Regiment had " ... practically disappeared . " By June 11 the effectiveness of the 352nd was regarded as " very slight " , and by June 14 the German corps command was reporting the 352nd as completely used up and needing to be removed from the line . 
