Omaha Beach, Normandy
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Official Site (normandiememoire.com)D-Day Memorial Website (dday.org)
American D-Day Site (search.eb)
WW2 Timeline (history.acusd.edu)
Omaha Beach (lonelyplanet.com)
When you arrive at this humble beach in Normandy and look around you at the holiday cottages and happy swimmers, it is almost impossible to understand the events of June 6, 1944. But this place, nine miles north-west of Bayeux, marked the beginning of the end of World War 2.
In the early hours of that mid-summer morning, two and a half thousand troops landed at Omaha, as elsewhere on the Normandy coast, to be faced with high cliffs and booming German guns. By evening, the Allies had captured the beach but thousands of Americans and Germans lay dead and the sea was red with blood.
Search the beach carefully and you will find a couple of large bomb craters hidden in the sand-dunes, and a concrete boat - and further up the road American and German Military cemeteries. Come here to remember the huge human sacrifice, for without it Europe, and the world, would be a very different place.
In the early hours of that mid-summer morning, two and a half thousand troops landed at Omaha, as elsewhere on the Normandy coast, to be faced with high cliffs and booming German guns. By evening, the Allies had captured the beach but thousands of Americans and Germans lay dead and the sea was red with blood.
Search the beach carefully and you will find a couple of large bomb craters hidden in the sand-dunes, and a concrete boat - and further up the road American and German Military cemeteries. Come here to remember the huge human sacrifice, for without it Europe, and the world, would be a very different place.
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You can feel history on your skin. This place is nice but steer away from the touristic museums and shops.
mrsatan79, 19/3/2007
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