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Understand

American troops disembarking at Omaha Beach.

Landings

The main routes of the assaults

• 49.2988-0.30551 Sword Beach (English)  (last update August 2018)
• 49.332-0.3992 Juno Beach (Canadian)  (last update Feb. 2018)
• 49.346-0.5543 Gold Beach (English)  (last update Feb. 2018)
• 49.372-0.88364 Omaha Beach (Americans)  (last update Feb. 2018)
• 49.415402-1.1746475 Utah beach (Americans)  (last update Feb. 2018)

Other allies

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To see

Sword Beach

British troops in Lion-sur-Mer

• Merville Battery Museum Place du 9ème Bataillon, 14810 Merville-Franceville,   33 2 31 91 47 53 – The museum traces the operations of the 6^e British airborne division (last update Feb. 2018)

Pegasus Bridge

• Pegasus Memorial Major Howard Ave, 14860 Ranville,   33 2 31 78 19 44  2,85 £. – The capture of the Pegasus Bridge was a remarkable achievement of the Glider Regiment and the 6^e British airborne division. History is well covered in the museum where exhibits include the original Pegasus Bridge and a Horsa glider. Several monuments of the 6^e British airborne division are next to the bridge. (last update March 2018)
• Site ofOuistreham  – This beautiful seaside resort has a legacy of fortifications, memorials, museums and military cemeteries, which stand between beach hotels, stretches of fine sand, breezy cliffs and quaint fishing harbors on the map. postal. (last update Feb. 2018)
• Nr 4 Commando Museum Place Alfred Thomas, 14150 Ouistreham,   33 2 31 96 63 10 – In this museum, you can see models, weapons and uniforms retracing the history of the Franco-British commandos who landed at Sword Beach. (last update Feb. 2018)
• Atlantic Wall Museum av du 6 Juin, 14150 Ouistreham,   33 2 31 97 28 69 – In a former artillery firing station located on the Atlantic wall, this high concrete tower, of 17 m tall, is one of a kind. It has been restored and re-equipped to return to its original condition. (last update Feb. 2018)
• Lion-sur-Mer site  (last update Feb. 2018)
• Colleville-Montgomery site  – A plaque is located on the main blockhouse at Hillman Battery in memory of the soldiers of the 1^er Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment. There is also a statue of General Montgomery and the provisional cemetery, the Kieffer and Montgomery monuments. (last update Feb. 2018)
• Hermanville site Hermanville-sur-Mer (last update Feb. 2018)
• Radar Museum Route de Basly 14440 Douvres-la-Délivrande,   33 2 31 06 06 45 – On the site of a German fortified radar base, the museum explains the evolution and operation of the radar. Outside, a German Würzburg radar can be observed. (last update Feb. 2018)

Juno Beach

Second waves of Canadian soldiers

• Langrune-sur-Mer site  (last update Feb. 2018)
• Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer site  (last update Feb. 2018)

D-Day Memorial, near Bernières-sur-Mer, Juno Beach

• Bernières-sur-Mer site  (last update Feb. 2018)

Char Sherman Duplex Drive, Courseulles-sur-Mer

• Site of Courseulles-sur-Mer  (last update Feb. 2018)
• Juno Beach Center Way of the Free French, 14470 Courseulles-sur-Mer,   33 2 31 37 32 17  3,50 £. (last update March 2018)
• Graye-sur-Mer site  (last update Feb. 2018)

Gold Beach

British tanks coming out of an American ship

• America Gold Beach Museum 2, Place Amiral Byrd, 14114 Ver-sur-Mer,   33 2 31 22 58 58 (last update Feb. 2018)

Gold Beach in Arromanches, site of the Mulberry port

• Arromanches 360 Chemin du Calvaire, 14117 Arromanches,   33 2 31 22 30 30 (last update Feb. 2018)
• Arromanches-les-Bains  (last update Feb. 2018)
• Landing Museum Place du 6 Juin, 14117 Arromanches,   33 2 31 22 34 31  3,90 £. (last update March 2018)

The Longues-sur-Mer battery

• Long Battery Longues-sur-Mer (Access by road D514 (follow the signs)),   33 2 31 06 06 45 – The Longues-sur-Mer battery housed four guns of 150 mm with a scope of 20 km and shelled Allied ships on the morning of June 6. It is the only coastal battery to have retained its guns, which gives an impressive picture of what the Atlantic Wall actually looked like. (last update Feb. 2018)
• Port-en-Bessin site  (last update Feb. 2018)
• Underwater wreck museum Route de Bayeux-Commes, 14520 Port-en-Bessin,   33 2 31 21 17 06 (last update Feb. 2018)
• Memorial Museum of the Battle of Normandy boul Fabian Ware, 14400 Bayeux,   33 2 31 51 46 90 (last update Feb. 2018)
• Memorial Museum of General de Gaulle 10, rue Bourbesneur, 14400 Bayeux,   33 2 31 92 45 55 (last update Feb. 2018)

Omaha Beach

Omaha Beach after taking the beach

Craters at Pointe du Hoc

• 1st Infantry Division Monument (Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer) (last update Feb. 2018)
• Omaha Beach Memorial Museum av de la Liberation, 14710 Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer,   33 2 31 21 97 44 (last update Feb. 2018)
• D-Day Omaha Museum Route de Grandcamp-Maisy, 14710 Vierville-sur-Mer,   33 2 31 21 71 80 (last update Feb. 2018)
• Vierville-sur-Mer site  (last update Feb. 2018)

Monument, Pointe-du-Hoc

• The Pointe du Hoc Cricqueville-en-Bessin (last update Feb. 2018)
• Ranger Museum - Maisy Battery (Grandcamp-Maisy),   33 2 31 92 33 51 (last update Feb. 2018)
• Maisy Battery Museum (Grandcamp Maisy) (last update Feb. 2018)

Utah beach

Utah beach

• Dead Man's Corner Museum 2 Upstream Village - 50500 Saint-Côme-du-Mont,   33 2 33 42 00 42 (last update Feb. 2018)
• Airborne Museum 14 rue Eisenhower - 50480 Sainte-Mère-Église,   33 2 33 41 41 35  2,85 £. (last update March 2018)

Statue on a bridge in Sainte-Mère-Église

• Sainte-Mère-Église  (last update Feb. 2018)
• Landing Museum Sainte-Marie-du-Mont (Utah beach),   33 2 33 71 53 35  2,70 £. (last update March 2018)
• Monuments located near the Landing Museum at Utah Beach  (last update Feb. 2018)
• Azeville battery La Rue - 50310 Azeville,   33 2 33 40 63 05 (last update Feb. 2018)
• Crisbeq Battery Museum Route des Manoirs, Saint-Marcouf,   33 6 86 10 80 59 (last update Feb. 2018)
• Memorial of the Rediscovered Liberty 18, av de la Plage, 50310 Quinéville,   33 2 33 95 95 95 (last update Feb. 2018)

After D-Day

The mayor of Cherbourg thanking the American general General Collins, whose troops liberated the city

Canadian Expats in Caen

Cliff

Devastation near Falaise

After Falaise

American troops in Paris

Cemeteries

Bény-sur-Mer Canadian Cemetery

American cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer

• 49.23113-0.257761 Military cemetery of Ranville 5357 Rue du Comté Louis de Rohan Chabot (last update Feb. 2018)
• 49.286-0.3092 Hermanville Military Cemetery  (last update May 2018)
• 49.304-0.453 Bény-sur-Mer Canadian Military Cemetery  (last update May 2018)
• 49.359155-0.8531614 Normandy American Cemetery 14710 Colleville-sur-Mer,   33 2 31 51 62 00  9 h - 18 h. (last update Feb. 2018)
• 49.1755-0.2295 Banneville-la-Campagne military cemetery  (last update March 2018)
• 49.023-0.27066 Polish cemetery of Grainville-Langannerie  (last update May 2018)
• 49.06-0.2927 Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian Cemetery  (last update May 2018)
• 49.178-0.51438 Saint-Manvieu military cemetery  (last update May 2018)
• 49.274-0.71439 Military cemetery of Bayeux  (last update May 2018)
• 49.3428-1.026610 German military cemetery of La Cambe  (last update May 2018)
• 49.426-1.44911 German military cemetery of Orglandes  (last update May 2018)

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