Normandy - Day One

[smallhobbit]

Last week we were on a coach tour of the D-Day landing sites and the further battles which happened.  This is not a historical description, there are plenty of books which can do that, but photos I took at the time which spoke to me.

We began at the Pegasus Bridge, which was captured by men landing in gliders:



Not gliders as I imagined - these took 30 men plus pilot.

 

Inevitably there was loss of life - hence the memorial:



From there we went to the first of the beaches, Sword, with a memorial to the Norwegian sailors who were present:

 

The next beach is Juno, where the Canadians landed:



This is a German gun emplacement



On Gold, the second of the British beaches:

Comments

[debriswoman]

Sad but fascinating:-)

[smallhobbit]

That's just how I felt.