Saturday, June 29, 2013

Arromanches, Gold Beach, St. Marie du Mont, Bayeux, Pegasus Bridge

Taken from the hill over looking the beaches of Arromanches and the town, Arromanches-Les-Bains, to the left. The remains of the Mulberry harbour prominently situated in the shallow water in front of the town.

St. Marie du Mont three miles inland from the Victor section of Utah Beach. (as pictured in Band of Brothers episode two "Day of Days," scene when LT Winters captures four German Howitzer guns which were firing on exit 2.)



Bayeux

A small house on the eastern bank of the Caen canal, where Horsa gliders of Britain's 6th Airborne division delivered the first Allied forces to start the northern invasion during the last few minutes of 5           June 1944.



Taken from the western side of the canal about 40 feet from where the first glider landed. Bridge on the right, house directly across is where the above picture was taken and German machine gun in the foreground.


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