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Merville-Franceville
Located in the Merville coastal battery casemate, the museum
retraces the Sixth British Airborne operations. Place du 9ème
Bataillon, 14810 Merville-Franceville, Tel. 02 31 91 47 53
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The capture of Pegasus Bridge was a remarkable achievement of the Glider Pilot regiment and the Sixth British Airborne. The story is well covered in the museum where exhibits include the original Pégasus Bridge and a Horsa Glider. Several monuments to the Sixth British Airborne are beside the bridge. Avenue du Major Howard - 14860 Ranville, Tel. 02 31 78 19 44 (£2.85) |
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In a former artillery
range-finding post on the Atlantic Wall, this 17 meter high concrete
tower is the only one of its kind and has been restored and |
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Site de Bernieres-sur-Mer |
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This pretty seaside village is
distinguished by its church with a 13th century bell tower and
220-foot spire. La Maison Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada commemorates
the men of this regiment. The house is one the famous houses on the
beach as it appeared in many news reels and official photos.
Memorials to the Queen’s Own Rifles, Le Regiment de la Chaudière and
Fort Garry Horse are located by a German bunker at La Place du
Canada. There is an excellent view of the beach from the bunker
position and you can imagine what it must have been like when 800
men of the Queens’s Own Rifles stormed ashore here as the lead wave
of the dramatic D-Day assault. There are also the North Nova Scotia
Highlanders plaque and Journalists HQ plaque. There is a walkway on
the seawall that makes for a pleasant stroll along the ocean. If you
walk east along the seawall about ½ km, you can see the house that
appears in the background on the famous film footage showing the
Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada storming the beach on D-Day.
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![]() ![]() Se samma byggnad på morgonen 6 juni 1944 Landstigning JUNO i färg |
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Located in a large park just in front
of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, the Airborne Museum tells you about the airdropping
of the
82nd and 101st American Airborne Divisions that made this place
the first liberated town in France.
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Built on the site of the artificial harbour. Its vestiges can still be seen, a few hundred yards away from the store On June 6th 1944, some 4,126 Allied ships successfully achieved the greatest landings in History on the beaches of Normandy, taking the Germans totally by surprise. |
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There was haze and smoke
everywhere on the beach. I came off the right side of
ramp and inflated the belt around my waist... A machine
gun was firing into the water about 60 feet ahead, I
could tell by the splash of the bullets that it was
coming from the right or west par of the beach. The
bullets were moving toward me and I was walking toward
them with no place to go or hide...
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One veteran told historian
Stephen Ambrose that "Face downward, as far as eyes
could see in either direction were the huddled bodies of
men living, wounded, and dead, as tightly packed as
cigars in a box… Everywhere, the frantic cry, 'Medics,
hey, Medics,' could be heard above the horrible din."
Indeed, for some the racket was worst of all: "The noise,"
said another, "always the noise, naval gunfire, small
arms, artillery, and mortar fire, aircraft overhead,
engine noises, the shouting and the cries of the wounded".
But the sounds weren't what one soldier, who'd been
wounded after coming ashore in one of the subsequent
assault waves, remembered: "As I painfully walked back
to the beach, thousands of parts of bodies lined it.
They were floating, heads, arms, legs. I realized what
being in the first wave was all about."
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Här finns inget museum, men
platsen har bevarats så gott som intakt från 1944.
Därför är den väl värd ett besök.
Länken går till en "ganska privat" sida med personliga foton som ger en bra bild av Pointe du Hoc. |
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Staden som ligger endast
några kilometer från stränderna (Gold). Ytterst lämplig
som bas för verksamheten.
Här finns sevärdheter som räcker långt..... Bayeuxtapeten - 70 meter lång, som visar Wilhelm Erövrarens anfall och seger över England vid Hastings 1066 Katedralen - med utsökt arkitektur, samt kryptor att gå ner i om man törs... Kyrkogård - här finns britternas största krigskyrkogård med soldater från 1944 Gourmet - här finns boulangerier längs hela huvudgatan. Glöm pizza och kebab, Du är i Frankrike ! |
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Är man nära kusten, så
skall man äta fisk eller musselsoppa eller ostron !
Vi är nära kusten.
Är man i Normandie måste man äta brie. Bättre ost finns inte. I så fall är den olaglig ! Är man sugen på vin redan till lunch, så befinner man sig i rätt land för att få valfri färg, mängd och prisklass. Sniglar, gåslever, hummer osv. V g välj - v g svälj ! |
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