 Only 100 of the 2 @,@ 400 tons of supplies scheduled to be landed on D @-@ Day were landed . Casualties for V Corps were estimated at 3 @,@ 000 killed , wounded and missing . The heaviest casualties were taken by the infantry , tanks and engineers in the first landings . The 16th and 116th RCT 's lost about 1 @,@ 000 men each . Only five tanks of the 741st tank battalion were ready for action the next day . The German 352nd division suffered 1 @,@ 200 killed , wounded and missing ; about 20 % of its strength . Its deployment at the beach caused such problems that Lieutenant General Omar Bradley , commander of the U.S. First Army , at one stage considered evacuating Omaha , while Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery considered the possibility of diverting V Corps forces through Gold . 
