This text is adapted from www.normandie44lamemoire.com - an excellent town-by-town resource of information on the Battle of Normandy in 1944. I would also recommend looking at World War II Battlefields website - it has loads of info on museum opening hours etc.

1. Utah Beach & Museum at La Madeleine: Facing the beaches of Utah, this Museum reports, through models scale, equipments and archives, the American Landing operations on Utah Beach. Several armoured vehicles, equipment and a landing ship can be seen outside the Museum.

2. La Pointe du Hoc: On the Norman coast this was a strategic objective in the sector of Omaha Beach. The Germans had built there a major coastal battery that could threaten the Landing beaches.

3. Omaha Beach: On 6 June 1944, the American troops landed in Normandy on Omaha Beach. Nothing occured as expected: near all the amphibious tanks sank, the bombers had been missing their targets, a strong tidal current veered of course the landing ships, and the engineers troops who had to open breaches in the defenses lost much equipment.

4. Mulberry harbours at Arromanches: Some steel and concrete elements of artificial harbour “Mulberry” B can be seen at low tide. There is also a Landing Museum and a number of memorials and other vestiges of the invasion.

10. American cemetery & museum at Colleville-sur-Mer: The cemetery overlooks the beaches of Omaha. Emotion overwhelms the visitor facing the large central viewpoint, the Memorial decorated with a huge Battle map, the «Garden of the missing» where are carved the names of 1 557 missing soldiers, and the ten squares of steles, perfectly line up where are buried 9 386 American soldiers and 4 women.