Not just surprised...SHOCKED ! I was over Normandy and there wasn't a
German
plane in sight over Omaha Beach from dawn to dusk. We flew two missions
that
day and never saw the Luftwaffe anywhere..

I seem to recall that there was Luftwaffe going TO Normandy beaches, but
most of them never reaching it, and the numbers were, well to put it mildly
insufficient. And It was propably in allied interests too to have enough
Fighters outside landing zones to keep them away. mr.Hitler didn't really
believe such a place was the actual landing site, just a minor decoy