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Pointe du Hoc

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Falaise d'Etretat

Hermanville-sur-Mer is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
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1. Mont Saint-Michel Mont Saint Michel
Le Mont-Saint-Michel is an island and mainland commune in Normandy, France. The island is located about one kilometer off the country's northwestern coast, at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches and is 7 hectares in area. The mainland part of the commune is 393 hectares in area so that the total surface of the commune is 400 hectares .As of 2015, the island has a population of 50.The island has held strategic fortifications since ancient times and since the 8th century AD has been the seat of the monastery from which it draws its name. The structural composition of the town exemplifies the feudal society that constructed it: on top, God, the abbey and monastery; below, the great halls; then stores and housing; and at the bottom, outside the walls, houses for fishermen and farmer...
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2. American Cemetery & Memorial Colleville Sur Mer
The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial is a World War II cemetery and memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, that honors American troops who died in Europe during World War II. More than 9,000 are buried there. In 2007, the American Battle Monuments Commission dedicated a new $30 million, 30,000 sf Visitors Center at the cemetery, relating the global significance and meaning of Operation Overlord.
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3. Omaha Beach Saint Laurent Sur Mer
Omaha, commonly known as Omaha Beach, was the code name for one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, during World War II. 'Omaha' refers to a section of the coast of Normandy, France, facing the English Channel 8 kilometers long, from east of Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes to west of Vierville-sur-Mer on the right bank of the Douve River estuary and an estimated 150-foot tall cliffs. Landings here were necessary to link the British landings to the east at Gold with the American landing to the west at Utah, thus providing a continuous lodgement on the Normandy coast of the Bay of the Seine. Taking Omaha was to be the responsibility of United States Army troops, with sea transport, mine sweeping, and a naval bombardment fo...
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4. Falaise d'Etretat Etretat
5. Pointe du Hoc Cricqueville En Bessin
6. Pegasus Memorial (Memorial Pegasus) Ranville
Pegasus Bridge is a bascule bridge , that was built in 1934, that crossed the Caen Canal, between Caen and Ouistreham, in Normandy, France. Also known as the Bénouville Bridge after the neighbouring village, it was, with the nearby Ranville Bridge over the river Orne, later renamed Horsa Bridge, a major objective of the British airborne troops during Operation Deadstick, part of Operation Tonga in the opening minutes of the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944 during the Second World War. A unit of glider infantry of the 2nd Battalion, the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, British 6th Airborne Division, commanded by Major John Howard, was to land, take the bridges intact and hold them until relieved. The successful taking of the bridges played an important role in limi...
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7. Hermanville War Cemetery Hermanville Sur Mer
Hermanville-sur-Mer is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
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Places to see in ( Bayeux - France ) British War Cemetery

Places to see in ( Bayeux - France ) British War Cemetery

The Bayeux War Cemetery is the largest Second World War cemetery of Commonwealth soldiers in France, located in Bayeux, Normandy. The cemetery contains 4,648 burials, mostly of the Invasion of Normandy.Opposite this cemetery stands the Bayeux Memorial which commemorates more than 1,800 casualties of the Commonwealth forces who died in Normandy and have no known grave.

The cemetery grounds were assigned to the United Kingdom in perpetuity by France in recognition of the sacrifices made by the British Empire in the defence and liberation of France during the war. In addition to the Commonwealth burials, there are 466 graves of German soldiers.

The cemetery contains the Cross of Sacrifice or War Cross, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). Queen Elizabeth II and President of France Jacques Chirac attended ceremonies at the cemetery on June 6, 2004, marking the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. Queen Elizabeth II and President of France François Hollande attended ceremonies at the cemetery on June 6, 2014, marking the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.

( Bayeux - France ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Bayeux . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Bayeux - France

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Tilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery

Normandy, France, 2004

Burial site of British Poet Keith Douglas, died fighting in France just after D-Day

Video shot June 10, 2004 at the British War Cemetery at Tilly-sur-Seuilles, in Normandy, France where poet Keith C. Douglas is buried. Also included is some footage shot at the Caen Mémorial de Caen (Peace Museum), regarded as the best World War II museum in France. With over 6,000,000 visitors since it opened, it is the second most visited site in Normandy after Mont-St-Michel. Featured is the file card from Gestapo files of one Claud Huard, arrested in 1944. Claud was the uncle of Rene Huard, who was our driver and guide for much of our tour of Normandy.

Captain Keith Castellain Douglas, - An English World War II poet who took part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, at the age of 24, died in France a few days after the Normandy landings. He was killed by enemy mortar fire on 9 June while the Regiment was advancing from Bayeux. He is buried at the war cemetery at Tilly-sur-Seuilles.

Born: 1920
Killed: 1944
Aged 24

Keith Douglas was born in Tunbridge Wells and educated at Christ's Hospital and Oxford. He served in North Africa during World War Two where he was injured by a land-mine and transferred home. Recovered, he returned to active duty to take part in the invasion of Normandy in 1944. His war poetry shows clearly painted imagery without mournful sentiment. His poem Desert Flowers pays homage to Isaac Rosenberg.

Actors Waiting In The Wings Of Europe
Aristocrats
Desert Flowers
How to Kill
Simplify Me When I'm Dead
Vergissmeinnicht ('Forget-me-not')

Douglas described his poetic style as 'extrospective'; that is, he focused on external impressions rather than inner emotions. The result is a poetry which, according to his detractors, can be callous in the midst of war's atrocities. For others, Douglas's work is powerful and unsettling because its exact descriptions eschew egotism and shift the burden of emotion from the poet to the reader. His best poetry is generally considered to rank alongside the twentieth-century's finest soldier-poetry.

Bayeux War Cemetery, Normandy, France

This is the impressive war Memorial at the Bayeux World War 2 Cemetery at Bayeux, Normandy, France

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