From Omaha Beach to Nuremberg: A Memoir of World War II Combat and the International Military Tribunal - Paperbackby Daniel Altman (Author) A tough Jewish kid from the Bronx, Dan Altman enlisted in the Army when the U. S. entered World War II. Adapting street smarts to soldiering, he became a skilled sharpshooter and attained the rank of sergeant in the 1st Infantry Division. On D Day, Altman's unit was among the second wave to assault the German defenses at Normandy. Surviving the invasion, the fighting in the lethal hedgerow country, the Hurtgen Forest, and the