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LCVP Higgins Boat

Landing Craft, Vehicle and Personnel (LCVP) or Higgins Boat

The LCVP landing craft was used to it's full potential and in large numbers during the many Allied …

Posted June 11, 2023 (updated June 15, 2023) by Pascal

National Guard Memorial Omaha Beach

The National Guard Memorial – Omaha Beach – Vierville-sur-mer, Normandy, France

This memorial commemorates the actions of the National Guard between 1940-1945 and it's Units who landed at Omaha …

Posted June 10, 2023 by Pascal

Memorial Museum of Omaha Beach – Normandy, France

The Memorial Museum of Omaha Beach is located at the D-Day landing beach code named Omaha. [...]Read More...

Posted May 21, 2023 (updated May 27, 2023) by Patrick

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 July 5, 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 March 27, 2023) 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

Omaha-beach-landing

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 March 27, 2023) 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 March 27, 2023) 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 March 27, 2023) by Pascal

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