Tag: D-Day
Part II: Planning Your Trip to Normandy and the D-Day Landing...
Eating in Normandy…
After reading Part I, you have landed in France, rented a car at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, have driven to Bayeux (stopping...
Part I: Planning Your Trip to Normandy and the D-Day Landing...
More than 1 million Americans annually visit the Normandy region of France, particularly to see the June 6, 1944, landing beaches. In terms of...
New D-Day Documentary On Our YouTube Channel!
A French family befriends an American soldier at a chateau near Omaha Beach during the June 6, 1944, D-Day landings. Their families remain friends...
Museum Receives Drawing of French D-Day Chateau
The Stonewall Brigade Museum has received the donation of a large pen and ink drawing depicting the Vierville Chateau that played a prominent part...
US Navy Memorial Postpones Normandy Lone Sailor Dedication to 2022
The United States Navy Memorial will postpone the official ceremony of the Normandy Lone Sailor statue dedication due to the ongoing pandemic. The Dedication...
Additional Airborne Sites West of the Merderet River
Additional Airborne Sites West of the Merderet River
In addition to the Merderet River crossing sites we list in the “D-Day Visitor’s Handbook,” there are...
The Maisy Battery
(Photo courtesy of Wikimedia)
Sometime in 1943 the German occupying force in Normandy began construction of a coastal gun battery near the inland village of...
Bloody Omaha, Part II
2nd in the Series...
IV
After baulking at American proposals for eighteen months, serious planning for a cross-Channel attack began in December of 1943, after the...
Medics Showed Bravery at Norman Church
ANGOVILLE-AU-PLAIN, France—An off-the-beaten-path medieval church was the scene of unbelievable heroism on a week in 1944 full of valor.
At the Romanesque church at Angoville-au-Plain,...
29th Division Honors Fallen During 75th Anniversary of D-Day Invasion
VIERVILLE-SUR-MER, France—The top officer in the National Guard, and one of the oldest survivors of the D-Day landings, commemorated the 75th anniversary of the...
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