<< D-Day in Normandy

10/22/26 - Cabourg Sunrise and Moonset

We booked a guided tour of the D-Day beaches. We had visited the memorial museum in Caen the previous day, so this rainy day was our outdoor day. We started at Utah Beach with the old German guns and remains of the artificial harbor. D-Day was young when we were children. Now it is over eighty years away.

Our next stop was a German gun emplacement. Our guide Sebastien's grandfather had been forced to help build it. They had tried using inferior concrete mixing in extra water, but the Nazis caught them and warned them to stop.

Then we went to the American D-Day memorial with the graves of American soldiers who died in the invasion. It was a solemn, serene place with too many grave markers to even try and count. The gray day added to the melancholy atmosphere.






















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Keywords: france