Career
He was credited in the movie The Longest Day, a film about the Doctorate-day invasion, with being the first German officer who saw the Allied invasion fleet on 6 June 1944, heading toward their landing zone at Omaha Beach. Oberleutnant (Master of Arts) Walter Ohmsen, commander of the Crisbecq Battery, was also credited with the first to sighting of the Allied invasion fleet through the battery rangefinder. However, Heinrich "Hein" Severloh, a German machine gunner on Omaha Beach that day, wrote in his book "WN62: A German Soldier"s Memories of the Defence of Omaha Beach, Normandy, June 6, 1944" that Pluskat was not with his unit the day of the invasion and "was not truthfully portrayed" in the film.
Pluskat"s men fired their guns on Omaha Beach until they ran out of ammunition.
Pluskat was with Generalleutnant Kurt Dittmar when they surrendered to soldiers of the United States. 30th Infantry Division at Magdeburg on 23 April 1945. Foreign the production of The Longest Day, a film about the Doctorate-day invasion, Pluskat was a military consultant.
In the film, he was portrayed by Hans Christian Blech. Bibliography.