The Normandy Landing Beaches
In November last year (2007)and again this year, I visited Normandy with the express intention of visiting the D-day Landing Beaches and the surrounding battlefield
areas. For those of you who have not been, there is plenty to see and do with museums, war cemetaries and other WWII memorial sites abounding. The landing
beaches extend from Quineville near the Eastern tip of the Cherbourg Peninsular (Utah Beach), eastwards to Ouistreham (Sword Beach), covering a considerable
distance. A car is certainly helpful although there are many battlefield tours on offer where visitors are bussed between destinations.
The following is a pictoral record of my visits which I hope you will find interesting.    
This Landing Craft Was Salvaged From A
Scrapyard In Portsmouth Before Being
Refurbished And Used In The Making Of The
Film
The Saving Of Private Ryan
First Visit November 2007
11th November 2007  Ranville Cemetary
 Veterans Of The Ranville Liberation
 Rememerance Ceremony Ranville Cemetary
The French National Anthem Is Played
 The Last Post Ranville Military Cemetary
 Wreath Laying British Military Cemetary
Pegasus Bridge Cafe Benouville
 Outside Pegasus Bridge Cafe
 Site Of Pegasus Bridge Over Caen Canal
This Gun Battery Took Direct Hit
 Remains Of Gun At Batterie De Longues
 Shattered Gun Barrel
Preserved Gun At Batterie De Longues
 Observation Bunker Batterie De Longues
 The Mulberry Harbour Arromanches
Memorial To Highland Division Following
Battle Near The River Orne
 Overlooking Omaha Beach
 Omaha Beach American War Memorial
Omaha Beach Looks Very Peaceful Today
 The Scale Of The Losses Is Staggering
 Omaha Beach Memorial Chapoe
82nd/101st Airborne Division Museum St
Marie D'Eglise
 82nd/101st Airborne Division Museum St Marie
D'Eglise
 82nd/101st Airborne Division Museum St
Marie D'Eglise
D-Day Museum Arromanches
 D-Day Museum Arromanches
 D-Day Museum Arromanches
D-Day Museum Arromanches
 D-Day Museum Arromanches
 D-Day Museum Arromanches
The Grand Bunker Museum Ouistreham
 The Grand Bunker Museum Ouistreham
 The Grand Bunker Museum Ouistreham
The Grand Bunker Museum Ouistreham
 The Grand Bunker Museum Ouistreham
 The Grand Bunker Museum Ouistreham
Artillery  Rangefinder On Top Of Grand
Bunker
 Sword Beach From Grand Bunker
 The Grand Bunker Museum Ouistreham
First Visit November 2007
The Grand Bunker Museum Ouistreham
 The Grand Bunker Museum Ouistreham
 The Grand Bunker Museum Ouistreham
Second Visit November 2008
Brittany American War Cemetery St James
Brittany American War Cemetery St James
 Brittany American War Cemetery St James
 Brittany American War Cemetery St James
Brittany American War Cemetery St James
 Brittany American War Cemetery St James
 Brittany American War Cemetery St James
War Museum At Falaise
 War Museum At Falaise
 War Museum At Falaise
The War Memorial Caen
 The War Memorial Caen
 The War Memorial Caen
The War Memorial Caen
 The War Memorial Caen
 The War Memorial Caen
Pegasus Bridge Memorial Museum
 Pegasus Bridge Memorial Museum
 Pegasus Bridge Memorial Museum
Pegasus Bridge Memorial Museum
 Pegasus Bridge Memorial Museum
 Pegasus Bridge Memorial Museum
Pegasus Bridge Memorial Museum
 Pegasus Bridge Memorial Museum
 Pegasus Bridge Memorial Museum
Merville Battery
 Merville Battery
 Merville Battery
Merville Battery
 Merville Battery
 Mixed Nationality War Cemetary Deauville
Headstone Of Army Nurse Killed Near
Deauville 1944
 Mixed Nationality War Cemetary Deauville
 View Of Remains Of Mulberry Harbour
Arromanches
Memorial At Jumo Beach (Canadians)
 Canadian Cemetary At Beney Sur Mer
 Sword (Briitish Landing Beach) Ouistreham
Royal Air Force
Administrative Apprentice Association
RAFAA
A
Multam A Parvo