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AZEVILLE BATTERY [3 Images]
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Four main artillery casements, a network of underground tunnels and bunkers, anti aircraft pits and even the remains of a casino (the floor anyway) all made up the Azeville battery, which housed 4x105mm howitzers that posed an obstacle to the inland progress of the Allied invasion of Normandy.
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BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY [6 Images]
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Predominantly British War Cemetry, located in the town of Bayeux. Just up the road from the Bayeux War Museum (Le Memorial de la Bataille de Normandie). The cemetery has the following graves; British - 3,935, Canadian - 181, Australian - 17, New Zealand - 8, South African - 1, Polish - 25, France - 3, Czech - 2, Italian - 2, Russian - 7, German - 466 and unidentified - 1.
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CARENTAN [6 Images]
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Carentan lay between the Omaha and Utah assault beaches and was the object of violent fighting before American troops linked up there on June 13, 1944.
We visited 4th March 2006.
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COLLEVILLE SUR MER US CEMETERY [6 Images]
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The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial overlooks Omaha Beach and the English Channel in Colleville-sur Mer. There are 9387 graves and in the semi-circular Gardens of the Missing there are 1,557 names on the walls of those missing in action whose bodies were never recovered.
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FALAISE POCKET [9 Images]
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The end of German power in France, with the crushing of the Wehrmacht in and around the 'Falaise Pocket'.
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INVASION BEACHES [10 Images]
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On June 6th, 1944, a great allied armada appeared off the Normandie coastline and started the reconquest of western Europe. On this day, on five beaches, troops were put ashore in difficult conditions, many under German fire.
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LA CAMBE GERMAN CEMETERY [6 Images]
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There are approximatlely 21,300 German soldiers commemorated here, of which 207 unknown and 89 identified are buried in a kamaradengraben (or mass grave) below the central tumulus.
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MERDERET [6 Images]
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The US 508th Parachute Regiment, part of the 82nd Airborne Division, took and held a vital crossing of the Le Merderet river, preventing German units escaping from or re-enforcing the areas where the Allied troops were landing. They succeded with heavy cost to themselves and the Germans.
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MERVILLE BATTERY [6 Images]
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Lt-Colonel Terence Otway, the commander of the 9th Battalion, led an assault on a bunker and trench network at Merville with only approximately 150 of around the 700 men assigned to accomplish the task. Suffering over 50% of these men in casualties the British Para's successfully took and silenced this battery, which was (mistakenly) thought too house 4 150mm howitzers which could of hit the invasion beach's.
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PEGASUS BRIDGE [6 Images]
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The 6th Airborne Division of the British and Commonwealth forces landed, took and then held two vital bridges over the Orne river and the Orne canal. The most famous of the two is known as Pegasus (Bénouville Bridge) bridge, named after the regiments symbol (7th Btn) of the units that landed a couple of hours later by parachute and defended the bridge against fierce counter attacks by the Germans. This bridge was vital to protect the invasion left flank from counter attacks and then allow breakout from the beach bridgeheads of the British and Commonwealth soldiers.
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POINTE DU HOC [9 Images]
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Another place where men overcame huge odds at great sacrifice. For a good account of what happened here go to http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/articles/pontduhoc.aspx
The pictures taken only go a small way to convey the task successfully undertaken by the US Rangers.
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St MERE EGLISE [6 Images]
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North of Carentan and South of Neuville, this small town lies on RN13, the road from Cherbourg to [Paris] and on the night of June 5th, US paratroopers dropped in and around the town, which was then the scene of some heavy fighting.
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