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Easy Red: Casemate Ruquet, Widerstandsnest 65 – Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, France

This bunker of Widerstandsnest 65 defended the valley of the Ruquet at Omaha Beach, sector Easy Red. It's …

Posted January 9, 2022 (updated March 26, 2023) by Pascal

D-Day: Overlord Museum – Colleville-sur-Mer, France

This museum traces the period of the Allied landings on D-Day in Normandy until the liberation of Paris. …

Posted May 23, 2017 (updated January 29, 2023) by Pascal

Beetle Mulberry Harbour, Whale Bridge in the back - Arromanche

Arromanches-les-Bains and the Mulberry Harbour Normandy France.

The Little town of Arromanches-les-Bains on the French coast in Normandy was part of the D-Day Landings on …

Posted November 13, 2016 (updated February 14, 2022) by Patrick

Camouflaged Czechoslovakian 150 mm gun

Maisy Battery – Widerstandsnest 83, Grandcamp-Maisy, Normandy – France

Battery Maisy or Widerstandsnest 83 was a coastal fortification on the Atlantic Wall near the French town of …

Posted August 13, 2014 (updated March 26, 2023) by Patrick

Batterie-Todt

Battery Todt – Audinghen, Cap Gris Nez, France

In September 1940, as part of the plan to invade England, Battery Siegfried (Stp. 186 Saitenspeil) became operational. …

Posted February 29, 2012 (updated October 14, 2022) by Pascal

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D-day: Omaha Beach Landing – Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, France

On 6 june 1944 the first wave of soldiers had to wade through this water for many yards …

Posted February 23, 2012 (updated February 14, 2022) by Pascal


Pointe du Hoc Ranger Memorial

Pointe du Hoc, US 2nd Ranger Memorial – Normandy, France

Situated between the beaches of Utah and Omaha, a strongpoint built by Organisation Todt, with an artillery battery …

Posted February 21, 2012 (updated October 14, 2022) by Pascal

Colleville-sur-Mer

American War Cemetery – Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France

With a view on Omaha Beach and the English Channel from which they came, 9.387 white crosses and …

Posted February 14, 2012 (updated May 27, 2022) by Pascal

The PzKpfw VI Ausf. E (Sd. Kfz. 181) in Vimoutiers

Calais to Pointe du Hoc, North West France

Our first stop after leaving home really early in the morning. We stretched our legs walking around this …

Posted May 4, 2010 (updated February 14, 2022) by Patrick

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