Hotel Bernieres Caen
50 rue de Bernieres Caen, Basse-Normandie, Normandy, 14000, France
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Nothing Like Being There
... Virginians. The average age of the American soldier was 22 and the D Day invasion was their first battle. The average age of the German soldier was 17. The Germans sent old men and young boys who had never been trained and kept their best and brightest soldiers on the eastern front. The Gernans thought it was impossible to retake France by invading the beaches at Normandy. Even though they ...
Night train to Paris
... the grumpy french woman who already was cross with us. Tim came to the rescue and offered to help her husband to lift his case up to the luggage rack from that point she was bossing poor tim about making him rearrange and lift everyones luggage but at least then she warmed to us somewhat. There were all manner of people on the train along with some very suspicious looking people like the man who kept walking up and down looking into the carriages and taking a good ...
Normandy
... pretty incredible to see and climb through the enormous impressions left by the Allies' air raid bombings. The views over the cliffs were breathtaking, and even more impressive is the feat that the outnumbered American troops achieved: scaling said cliffs with ropes and ladders under heavy artillery fire to defeat the Nazis. On a lighter note, we decided to break up our somber sightseeing with a calvados (apple ...
EURO-RAIL Adventure - Normandy
... by mines. Jim Maloney was always very proud of being part of the invasion forces and proud of the crew members aboard the ship. In fact, Jim and Lee Maloney used to attend almost annually reunions of the ship on years when they were able. As you can see from a few of the pictures below, the name "SUSAN B. ANTHONY" is itched forever in the Naval Memorial at Utah Beach.
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D-day to abbeys
... in the American cemetery they have a wall with the names of all the missing. They add a pin to the wall if the person gets found. apparently they find bodies here every now and again with developments and farming, one of the most recent being only 2years ...



