{"id":145,"date":"2023-01-24T13:32:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T13:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.normandy-tour-guide.com\/normandy\/?page_id=145"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:50:22","slug":"general-norman-cota","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/normandy-tour-guide.com\/normandy\/general-norman-cota\/","title":{"rendered":"General Norman Cota"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gen Norman Cota was the deputy commander of the 29th division.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"519\" class=\"wp-image-153\" style=\"width: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.normandy-tour-guide.com\/normandy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Gen-Normand-cota-3.jpg\" alt=\"norman cota\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"544\" class=\"wp-image-152\" style=\"width: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.normandy-tour-guide.com\/normandy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Gen-Norman-Cota.jpg\" alt=\"norman cota\">Played by Robert Mitchum in the longest day. He landed at 7:45 and soon realized that staying where they were would get all the men killed. He goaded them into action to get off the beach. Engineers broke through the barbed wire then started making their way up the bluff testing for mines. Cota was up the top\u00a0\u00a0by 9am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>COTA  SCHOOLS AN OFFICER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later in the day, in Saint Laurent, Gen Cota was dismayed to see that some Germans in a house were holding up the advance of a group of soldiers. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"245\" class=\"wp-image-154\" style=\"width: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.normandy-tour-guide.com\/normandy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/St-Laurent-village.png\" alt=\"Saint laurent village\" srcset=\"https:\/\/normandy-tour-guide.com\/normandy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/St-Laurent-village.png 1490w, https:\/\/normandy-tour-guide.com\/normandy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/St-Laurent-village-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/normandy-tour-guide.com\/normandy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/St-Laurent-village-1024x628.png 1024w, https:\/\/normandy-tour-guide.com\/normandy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/St-Laurent-village-768x471.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>He asked the Captain why they weren\u2019t advancing. He replied that the Germans were firing at them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cota told him to get his men firing at the house while Cota and a group went round to one side, then, shouting and hollering, they ran at the house throwing grenades in the windows. The surviving germans went out the &nbsp;back door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said to the Captain that he now knew how to clear a house.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" class=\"wp-image-155\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.normandy-tour-guide.com\/normandy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/gun-Machine-Gun-American-NB-1.jpg\" alt=\"machine gun\" srcset=\"https:\/\/normandy-tour-guide.com\/normandy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/gun-Machine-Gun-American-NB-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/normandy-tour-guide.com\/normandy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/gun-Machine-Gun-American-NB-1-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/normandy-tour-guide.com\/normandy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/gun-Machine-Gun-American-NB-1-768x578.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 29th had practiced getting on to beaches, but nobody had shown the officers how to take a house. 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