 Today at Omaha jagged remains of the harbor can be seen at low tide . The shingle bank is no longer there , cleared by engineers in the days following D @-@ Day to facilitate the landing of supplies . The beachfront is more built @-@ up and the beach road extended , villages have grown and merged , but the geography of the beach remains as it was and the remains of the coastal defenses can still be visited . At the top of the bluff overlooking Omaha near Colleville is the American cemetery . As late as 1988 , particles of shrapnel , as well as glass and iron beads resulting from munitions explosions , have been found in the sand of the beach . 
