Normandy
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:41 pmA few photos I took in and around the D-Day landing beaches of Normandy on my recent visit.
Port Winston, or Mulberry B, Gold Beach in the British sector, off the French town of Arromanches. I was amazed at just how much of this remarkable feat of wartime engineering still remains today.
I believe the structure on top of this wall section was once an AA gun emplacement.
Omaha Beach, Easy Red Sector, Colleville-Sur-Mer. Only these two isolated concrete obstacles give a hint as to what this beach must have looked like sixty years ago.
This view was taken from a German machine gun position. The whole of the hillside overlooking the beach is one big armoured bunker.
View from inside one of the gun emplacements overlooking Omaha Beach.
Memorial to the US First Infantry division at Colleville-Sur-Mer.
La Pointe Du Hoc. This whole site is one of total devastation with hundreds of bomb and shell craters bearing testimony to the intensity of the Allied assault upon this strategically vital objective.
One of the virtually intact gun emplacements atop La Pointe Du Hoc. Somehow Hollywood always makes them look bigger.
Despite the scale of the bombardment, this underground compound was remarkably untouched.
Ranger Memorial at La Pointe Du Hoc.
The whole of Normandy is packed with History, not just from the Twentieth Century but going back many hundreds of years. I found the whole D-Day experience quite moving, most notably on Omaha Beach. Sadly time ran out before I got to visit Pegasus Bridge, but that is my excuse to go back again next year.
Port Winston, or Mulberry B, Gold Beach in the British sector, off the French town of Arromanches. I was amazed at just how much of this remarkable feat of wartime engineering still remains today.
I believe the structure on top of this wall section was once an AA gun emplacement.
Omaha Beach, Easy Red Sector, Colleville-Sur-Mer. Only these two isolated concrete obstacles give a hint as to what this beach must have looked like sixty years ago.
This view was taken from a German machine gun position. The whole of the hillside overlooking the beach is one big armoured bunker.
View from inside one of the gun emplacements overlooking Omaha Beach.
Memorial to the US First Infantry division at Colleville-Sur-Mer.
La Pointe Du Hoc. This whole site is one of total devastation with hundreds of bomb and shell craters bearing testimony to the intensity of the Allied assault upon this strategically vital objective.
One of the virtually intact gun emplacements atop La Pointe Du Hoc. Somehow Hollywood always makes them look bigger.
Despite the scale of the bombardment, this underground compound was remarkably untouched.
Ranger Memorial at La Pointe Du Hoc.
The whole of Normandy is packed with History, not just from the Twentieth Century but going back many hundreds of years. I found the whole D-Day experience quite moving, most notably on Omaha Beach. Sadly time ran out before I got to visit Pegasus Bridge, but that is my excuse to go back again next year.
