Omaha Beach, US Memorial, Arromanches, France Dancejill's photos around Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer
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Entry from: Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France
Entry Title: Omaha Beach, US Memorial, Arromanches, France
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June 28, Sunday
We go through the centre of the village. We are looking for some bread for breakfast. We find a bakery and have warm chocolate filled square croissants. They were delicious. There is a market along the street so we also have some fresh strawberries, samples of cheese from rounds. We buy a small piece that is 12+ Euros! So we ask for it to be cut in half. Then we find a booth that is roasting chickens so we buy a small chicken and potatoes for one -- he gives us enough for 3 big men I am sure. After strolling along the booths we head back to the car to put the stuff in the back and then cross the c**** and climb the hill and have a look out over the sea.
We are back to the car and now to find a picnic area for our chicken and bread. I guess we are having brunch, but it is already 12:30. The chicken and potatoes were very good.
Now back down the road to find Omaha Beach. For it being the 65th anniversary and I am sure lots of tourists were here we thought there might have been more signage, but I guess it is as it is. We did find the beach and went and walked along the sands. We could see bunkers up on the hill.
Then we went to the cemetery, first stop was the visitor centre that depicts the significance and meaning of Operation OVERLORD and honours the values and sacrifices of the World War II generation; a film and then looking at all the information on the preparation for and D-day itself. Sad that so many young men from all the countries lost their lives. Incredible feats that were performed, inventions created and timing to make it all happen. We enjoyed all of the visitor's centre and then we went out on the hill overlooking Omaha Beach where they landed, then on to the cemetery with rows and rows of marked white crosses or Stars of David. There were some graves for the unknown soldiers amongst them. There are over 9,387 headstones and a garden area of 1,557 names of those missing in action. It all was very moving.
From here we went back towards Port-en-Bessin and then onto Arromanches where there is a very large museum. We had thought about going through it, but it was mostly uniforms, guns and the like. We went for a walk along the beach wall. The tide is now partly in and we can still see some of the Mulberry harbour pieces in the water forming half a circle for kilometers. It was a huge floating harbour that was constructed for the supply ships to dock at and unload all the supplies on these floating roads. There was one of the road sections that we could get close too. Hard to figure out (for me) how this huge piece of metal floated!
We went for a train ride through the town and up to a hill overlooking the beach, then back down to town. It was a hot day and it took a long time to get going and then stopped at the top for a long time.
We then went to find a camp ground for the night. We drove to Courseulles sur Mer where Juno Beach is. This is where the Canadians landed. The campground was at the end of the town and quite nice. The woman working the reception was not a happy camper and told us she only spoke French, but when I didn't understand something she said and shrugged my shoulders, she said it in English.
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Photos from this trip:
1. Expanding Table
2. Our Flag
3. The town of Port-en-Bessin-Huppain
4. Shells
5. Our Picnic
6. The town by Omaha Beach
7. V for Victory
8. Omaha Beach
9. Outside the Visitor Centre
10. The family the movie is based on
11. The story
12. Pretty Flower
13. Looking down at Omaha Beach Landing
14. The cemetery
15. Omaha Beach Cemetary
16. US Military
17. It is very big
18. How Sad
19. Memorial area for those Missing in Action
20. Memorial
21. Arromanche
22. Mulberry Harbour pieces
23. Arromanche Beach
24. The roadway
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Omaha Beach Memorial
Watch as American kids and the Mayor of St. Laurent sur Mer lay flowers at the Omaha Beach Memorial
El MUSEO MEMORIAL DE OMAHA BEACH (Normandía) [Activar subtítulos en Español]
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Para aprender más sobre el desembarco en Omaha Beach nos hemos acercado hasta Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer para visitar el MUSEO MEMORIAL DE OMAHA BEACH. Hoy CATHERINE y DANIEL nos abrirán las puertas de este museo construido para preservar la memoria de los soldados americanos desembarcados aquí en 1944.
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6th Engineer Special Brigade Memorial near Omaha Beach #DDay 6 June 1944. The location is Rue de 116 in Saint Laurent sur Mer. or actually on Google it is Rue du 116TH Rgt Infant US. This is basically on Omaha Beach, this Over-grown Monument dated 6 June 1944. Well, in the dunes just near it. It appears to say that it was for the 6th Engineer Special Brigade Memorial.
In another town, they have a well preserved monument to them. What is interesting, is also the photo in Commune de Saint Laurent sur Mer from 1944 of German POW's starting the foundation of a monument, for as they state, One year after the D-Day landings in Normandy, German prisoners landscape the area around a former German pill box at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France, near Omaha Beach, May 28, 1945. The pill box, with a knocked out gun still visible, will be made into a monument dedicated to U.S. assault forces. - source -
This appears to be maybe, not sure though, same terrain as in Saint Laurent sur Mer where we shot this video in 2014! Here are also my pictures from 2007 and you see that in 7 years it is greatly covered up! See - --- Pity they do not clean this monument up... 6th Engineer Special Brigade Memorial near Omaha Beach 6 June 1944
Found some more info - looks like they moved it...
Posted 13 August 2010 - 09:41 AM
Hi Marion and Dave
The monument of 6th Engineer Special Brigade around 1950 in Saint laurent .
The monument of 6th Engineer Special Brigade, dedicated in 1998. Pictures that I made in 2006 .
It was moved to Vierville -sur-Mer and modernized.
I find this link on the 6th engineer special brigade
But, I am sorry I did not find in English
See original thread here with old picture -
6th Engineer Special Brigade Memorial near #OmahaBeach
OMAHA Beach *D-Day* Normandy American Cemetery Memorial
(song Brothers in arms by Mark Knopfler)
La maggior parte delle scene di guerra sono quelle proiettate nel Centro Visitatori del Cemetery and Memorial ad Omaha Beach; alcune sono invece del film Saving Private Ryan.
Il 6 giugno 1944 cominciò lo sbarco in Normandia, una delle più importanti operazioni militari della seconda guerra mondiale che segnò l'inizio della liberazione dell'Europa.
Ai cinque litorali scelti per lo sbarco erano stati assegnati dagli alleati dei nomi in codice: Utah-Omaha affidati alle truppe statunitensi, Gold-Juno-Sword a quelle anglocanadesi.
Tali nomi sono rimasti ancora oggi ed identificano i luoghi dove si svolsero sanguinose battaglie e dove persero la vita migliaia di uomini.
Sotto il nome di Omaha beach, entrato nella leggenda, si nascondono le spiaggie di tre tranquilli villaggi: Vierville, Colleville e Saint Laurent. Qui gli americani trovarono la situazione peggiore, un mare impetuoso, una spiaggia quasi imprendibile piena di bunker e dune fortificate, un nemico numeroso e agguerrito.
Per raggiungere l'altopiano dove ora sorge il Cimitero le truppe di invasione dovettero combattere allo scoperto su una distanza di circa 200 metri per una intera giornata, con alterne vicende tanto che fu preso in considerazione anche il reimbarco col rischio di compromettere l'intera operazione. Ma alla fine verso sera gli americani riuscirono ad ottenere il controllo, se pur fragile, della spiaggia dopo aver lasciato sul campo oltre 2000 vittime.
Non a caso Omaha beach, in località Colleville s/Mer, è stata scelta dagli Stati Uniti per diventare il Cimitero Memorial dello sbarco e della intera campagna di Normandia. Là riposano le salme di 9387 soldati americani caduti in quei campi di battaglia e là vengono ricordati in un giardino fiorito i 1557 dispersi.
Il Cimitero è frequentato ogni anno da un milione di visitatori.
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Web: anilorebanon.net
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Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer - Normandie - 09/06/1944 - DDay-Overlord
Date : 9 juin 1944 - June 9th, 1944
Sujet | Subject:
- Reportage sur le premier camp de prisonniers allemands installé à Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, à proximité de la sortie E-1 du secteur Easy Red (Omaha Beach), et sur le passage de renforts américains dans les ruines de la commune.
- Report on the first German prisoners camp installed at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, near the E-1 exit located at the Easy Red sector (Omaha Beach) and on the crossing of US reinforcements in the ruins of the town.
Lieu | Location: Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Calvados, Normandie
Personnalité(s) | Person(s): --
Unité(s) | Unit(s): --
Source: US National Archives
N°: INV 98
Interieur Du Musée OMAHA BEACH 07 JUIN 2018
Anilore Banon - Les Braves à Omaha Beach
Sculpture monumentale d'Anilore Banon installée à Omaha Beach (Saint-Laurent-Sur-Mer)
Film de Claire Maillard et Cécile Brams
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