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D-Day photos taken during a 1999 trip to Normandy and Brittany and separated here for those just interested in the D-Day sites. All taken with a Minolta Vectis S-1 camera, most with an 22-80 lens (in APS terms) and some with an 80-240 lens. No tripod, although one would have been helpful on the very cloudy afternoon part of the day. Comments are welcome.
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Bob Johnson > Our approach down to the Normandy beaches after driving from Paris, first to Arromanches. A good starting place for a visit to the D-Day area. From here, drive west to Omaha and Utah beaches or east to the Canadian and British landing areas. To the left of the church steeple you can see a remnant of the artificial harbor built here to supply the invasion forces.
Bob Johnson > At the American cemetery, an outline of the initial landings. Facing in from the sea, British and Canadians are to the left and the Americans to the right at the Omaha and Utah beaches, where we spent most of our time.
Bob Johnson > Arromanches is a tourist town, with a fine museum that details the invasion, the equipment, the soldiers of many nations that made contributions, however small for some, to the invasion. Danes, Dutch, French, Norwegians, Poles and likely more were somewhere among the Americans, Canadians and Brits.
Bob Johnson > In the Arromanches harbor are remnants of the British Mulberry devices that provided a port to receive shipping after the first invasion before the Allies captured a "real" port facility. Without these, supplying Allied forces in the early stages would have been even more difficult than it was.
Bob Johnson > At Utah beach, a monument at a place where American troops came up from the beach. Fighting here was less intense than at Omaha. At this time in the afternoon, the day was cloudy, windy, chilly.
Bob Johnson > At Utah beach, a Sherman tank.
Bob Johnson > At Utah beach, a unit memorial to an Engineer brigade.
Bob Johnson > Monument to the Allied invasion at Utah beach.
Bob Johnson > Scene of the Normandy countryside, traveling between Omaha and Utah beaches.
Bob Johnson > Resting in the British cemetery are soldiers killed from the start to the end of the war. But most were from battles during the June-July-August Normandy campaign.
Bob Johnson > The British cemetery was inland from the Normandy beaches and a very peaceful and immaculate place.
Bob Johnson > Another view of the highly groomed British cemetery.
Bob Johnson > Buried with the British, unknown German soldiers.
Bob Johnson > A Lance Corporal of The Green Howards.
Bob Johnson > A roadside notice of a momument to a British armored unit. The kids were off for fishing in a nearby stream.
Another view of the highly groomed British cemetery.
Bob Johnson > Another view of the highly groomed British cemetery.
Another view of the highly groomed British cemetery.
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