As most of you will know I have recently returned from Normandy, France. Again this year I had decided to revisit the D-Day sites and take the opportunity to show the sites to Jo's mum and dad who have never been.
Normandy is a beautiful place, a historic place and a moving place. From it's postcard picturesque fishing villages like Honfleur to the Beaches of Utah, Omaha, Sword, Juno and Gold to the cemeteries at Ranville, Bayeaux and Colleville it's a place like no other. Uplifting yet moving at the same time.
I've decided to build a website on Normandy alone and when I've finished I will post a link to the site which hopefully will provide lots of historical content as well as my own pictures and hints and tips of where to go and what to see should you decide to visit. Mostly though it will be a photographic archive of my visits there.
In the meantime, here's a few from this years visit..
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| Visited relics of the war. This DC10 actually took part in the Airbourne drops on D-Day and went on to serve in the Arnhem and Rhine campaigns |
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| Visited the Merville Battery...taken by the British Airbourne hours before D-Day |
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| The Peace memorial on Omaha beach |
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| A strange feeling. Omaha is once again alive to explosions and colour as a D-Day celebration BBQ and firework display takes place on the beach. The Beach memorial is just visible bottom left. |
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| One of my favourite places to visit and a village with many tales to tell about that famous night/morning of 5/6 June 1944. St-Come-du-Mont |
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| Visited museums .....What could have been.... |
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| Visited the remains of the 'Atlantic Wall'...this is on Utah beach |
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Visited battle sites...this memorial remembers those of 'Easy Company' 101st Airbourne who lost their lives in this area.
This memorial is on the site of the famous action undertaken by Richard 'Dick' Winters and men of Easy Company
who took out German gun emplacements in the field behind me and is known as the Brecourt Manor attack.
Richard Winters and his men of Easy Company were immortalised by the Steven Speilberg production 'Band of Brothers' |
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| Trained guns onto Manchester... |
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| Visited the German gun batteries at Longues Sue Mer...taken by the British |
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| Looked out of German observation posts.. |
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Looked into German observation posts..
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