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Day 3: Normandy
... Tommy said it was like grandpa answered (as he would), "Does it matter? It all smelled like horse **** and so did we!" Meanwhile, there were no horses around. We drove on through Ste-Mere-Eglise, Vologne, and Carentan, and it was surreal. they were all fairly small towns, old, and you could picture the door-to-door searches, snipers in the tower windows, and bombed-out homes. Many of the original walls and buildings still ...
The D Day beaches of Normandy!
... this trip to Normandy was the high light of our trip. Nothing I can share with you, words or pictures, can replace the experience of walking the beaches our troops did back in 1944 and experiencing that history first hand. Ken and I are already talking about a return visit at some point in the future. We will spend time in Normandy and give the area the time and attention it deserves - Paris will just have to wait! ...
The Beaches of Normandy Weekend: Part 3
... to death a bunch of times), and explored the craters and bunkers on our own. We walked up and down into the craters, around their rims, and over their damage. Many of the craters have developed distinct footpaths through them as a result of so many people walking through them. There has been no other change to the landscape except that the holes now have grass growing in them, covering the damage. The day was damp and cold, at one point the sky started spitting at us. It ...
The Beaches of Normandy Weekend: Part 2
... stone, I thought that the crosses were just a representation of the dead, blank slate, and that the bodies were all flown home and buried on U.S. soil. I wasn't entirely wrong, though; the cemetery is, legally, U.S. soil; it was like we were going home.
The memorial at one end of the cemetery contains large maps and narratives of the military operations leading up to and through the victory of the Allied forces in Europe and Japan. The ...
The Beaches of Normandy Weekend: Part 1
... Panic ensues in the German base. When the first Allied marines land on the beaches, the screen extends into one. The battle rages for a few minutes, and then the music calms down to show the Allied soldiers leading any Germans left alive out of destroyed bunkers with their hands above their heads. The D-day battle was crucial to the Allies winning the war because it got the Allied forces back on the European continent where they were able to push back the Nazi ...
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