Normandy Landing Beaches 75th Anniversary Tour: The Day After

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Stop At: Batterie Allemande de Longues-Sure-Mer, West of Arromanches-les-Bains, Longues-sur-Mer France

The Longues-sur-Mer battery was a World War II German artillery battery constructed near the French village of Longues-sur-Mer in Normandy. The battery was sited on a 60 m (200 ft) cliff overlooking the sea and formed a part of Germany's Atlantic Wall coastal fortifications. It was located between the Allied landing beaches of Gold and Omaha and shelled both beaches on D-Day (6 June 1944). The battery was captured on June 7 and played no further part in the Normandy campaign.

The battery at Longues-sur-Mer was situated between the landing beaches Omaha and Gold. In the build-up to D-Day, the battery was attacked by aircraft on several occasions.

This is the only battery in Normandy to retain all its original guns in situ and was listed as a historical monument in October 2001. It remains in a good state of conservation.


Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Musee du Debarquement Utah Beach, Utah Beach, 50480 Sainte-Marie-du-Mont France

Stop at the D-Day Landing Museum in Arromanches, Normandy:

This exhibition on the Normandy Landings was officially opened on June 5th, 1954 in Arromanches.

It was the first museum to be built in commemoration of June 6th, 1944 and the Normandy Campaign.

The D-day Museum overlooks the very spot where one of the Mulberry Harbours was constructed and where its remains can still be seen today, just a few hundred meters from the shore.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Remains Mulberry Harbour, Harbor of Arromanches les Bains Place du Groupe Ile de France Plage d'Arromanches, 14117 Arromanches-les-Bains France

Mulberry harbors were temporary portable harbors developed by the United Kingdom during the Second World War to facilitate the rapid offloading of cargo onto beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. After the Allies successfully held beachheads following D-Day, two prefabricated harbors were taken in sections across the English Channel from Britain with the invading army and assembled off Omaha Beach (Mulberry "A") and Gold Beach (Mulberry "B").

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Saint Laurent Sur Mer, 14710 Colleville-sur-Mer France

The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France is located in Colleville-sur-Mer, on the site of the temporary American St. Laurent Cemetery, established by the U.S. First Army on June 8, 1944 as the first American cemetery on European soil in World War II. The cemetery site, at the north end of its half-mile access road, covers 172.5 acres and contains the graves of 9,380 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. On the Walls of the Missing, in a semicircular garden on the east side of the memorial, are inscribed 1,557 names. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Omaha Beach, Avenue de la Liberation, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer France

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.

Taking Omaha was to be the responsibility of United States Army troops, with sea transport, minesweeping, and a naval bombardment force provided predominantly by the United States Navy and Coast Guard, with contributions from the British, Canadian, and Free French navies.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Pointe du Hoc, 14450 Cricqueville-en-Bessin France

La Pointe du Hoc was the site of the fiercest battle of the Landing Beaches. It is a cliff overlooking the English Channel on the north-western coast of Normandy.

During World War II it was the highest point between the American sector landings at Utah Beach to the west and Omaha Beach to the east. The German army fortified the area with concrete casemates and gun pits.

On D-Day, the United States Army Ranger Assault Group attacked and captured Pointe du Hoc after scaling the cliffs.

Duration: 1 hour