Normandy WWII Sites

1) Pegasus Bridge, British airborne objective, paratroopers held off armoured divisions
2) Sword Beach, British Commonwealth landings
3) Canadian Memorial, guys look like flying squirrels
4) Center of Canadian landings, memorial
5) Juno Beach, Canadians
6) Gold Beach, British
7) German shore guns at Longues sur Mer
8) German bunker at Longues sur Mer
9) Omaha Beach as seen from the bluffs, US landings
10 & 11) American Cemetary at Omaha Beach
12) Omaha Beach from the waterline at approximately low tide, the same distance a soldier would have had to run encumbered by gear while getting shot at
13) Omaha beach at Vierville sur Mer, some of the heaviest fighting
14) Pointe du Hoc cliffs, Army Rangers scaled these on the morning of the landings
15) Pointe du Hoc is preserved as it was after WWII, with bomb craters and flame thrower scorching still visible
16) German, French and British dead who were not repatriated, usually were just buried in municipal cemetaries. This cemetray had dead from all three countries.
17) Utah Beach, US landings
18) Utah Beach memorial to all lost US troops
19) Airborne memorial near St. Marie Eglise
20) La Fierre bridge, 82nd Airborne obective to take and hold the night before the landings to prevent reinforcements