Following on from my last post from Normandy, here are some of my photographs from the area these first ones are of the fortifications, beaches, monuments and the American cemetery.
Utah Beach monument
a gun emplacement
tank,
another monument to the fallen
another of the many tanks to be found on display
The beaches as they are now, quiet...
......but still watched over by silent gun emplacements...
the first house liberated on D-Day, by the Canadians..
A memorial at Utah beach
a view of a portion of the American cemetery, over 9,000 war graves.
Omaha beach from the American Cemetery
Cherbourg, from inside a bunker/gun emplacement
the emplacement from outside
a look-out post above a fortified gun emplacement
and the emplacement with the zig-zag trench from the bunk-house.
Normandy is not just about the war though, we did visit Bayeux and the Tapestry.
The town itself is very picturesque, but the weather was rather wet and cold.
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