Omaha Beach, looking east
Omaha Beach, Normandy
Looking west
Omaha Beach in much busier times
Eastern end of Omaha Beach and site of WN 62
Widerstandsnest 62, Omaha Beach
One of the two casemate "defense nests", each housing a 75mm cannon
WN 62' lower type 669 casemate at Colleville-sur-Mer, for a 75mm gun
Iron Mike statue to the Airborne
Just south of St Mere Eglaise
St Mere Eglaise
Captured by the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division on June 6, 1944
Urah Beach, Normandy
Monument to E Company
Easy Co. was featured in the tv serial Band of Brothers
Typical hedgerow
4 miles SE of Saint Mere Eglaise
War Relics
Searching in a field behind Utah Beach
Arromanches
Cast concrete breakwaters towed from England and sunk off Arromanches to form an artificial harbor
Mullberrys
Showing the cut through the wall to facvilitate logistics & troop movements ashore
Mulberry
Overhead view of a 75-year old Mulberry
Hill 112 monument
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Hill 112
This high ground SW of Caen (seen int he background) provided vital observation
Commonwealth Cemetery
Fontenay-le-Pesnel
Villers Bocage
Site of Michael Wittman's Tiger tank when he stalled the British 7th AR Division's advance
Wittman's death
Commonwealth tank crews destroyed Michael Wittman's Tiger tank on this road
Michael Wittman's grave
Wittman was WWII's leading tank commander, with some 137 kills. His crewmen are buried beside him
