 Where vehicles were landing , they found a narrow strip of beach with no shelter from enemy fire . Around 08 : 30 , commanders suspended all such landings . This caused a jam of landing craft out to sea . The DUKWs had a particularly hard time of it in the rough conditions . Take the 13 DUKWs carrying the 111th Field Artillery battalion of the 116th RCT : five were swamped soon after disembarking from the LCT , four were lost as they circled in the rendezvous area waiting to land , and one capsized as they turned for the beach . Two were destroyed by enemy fire as they approached the beach and the lone survivor managed to offload its howitzer to a passing craft before it also succumbed to the sea . This one gun eventually landed in the afternoon . 
