We've never seen so many American flags as we have today. Nearly every small town has a monument as well. It's fair to say that the bombed out earth, pillboxes, and american cemetery were something that a picture doesn't quite get the entire feel of what it was like in person. We'll let the pictures do the talking for the most part today.
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| The Peace Monument |
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| Insigny-sur-Mer |
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| Soldier demonstration in Grandcamp Maisy |
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| 10ft deep hole in ground from a bomb. An entire field of them. |
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| Point du Hoc |
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| 225 rangers had to scale this cliff to take out the german guns. 25 minutes later 90 were standing and the germans were defeated. |
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| I'm not sure what fired the holes in this, but they went about 4inches deep into solid metal. |
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| Omaha Beach (area: Dog) |
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| Omaha Beach Memorial |
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| The american cemetary. About 2 football fields wide and maybe 1km or more long. Nearly all the graves note death on D-day or the following 2 days. |
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| A very moving ceiling tiling. |
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| Arromanches-les-Bains: the blocks in the water are remains of the mulberrys (artificial harbors made by the US engineers) |
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| Eric at the foot of the cliffs of Saving Private Ryan, at high tide. |
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| At the hotel! |
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