“The Wreckage Was Vast and Startling”: Ernie Pyle on Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944June 6, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 1 CommentErnie Pyle on Omaha Beach after the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944 describes a wreckage “vast and startling” along “this shoreline museum of carnage” even as he anticipates inevitable victory for the Allies.