Great video and thanks! I was fortunate enough to catch four of these during a 2009 visit. One add I would make is the German cemetery at La Cambe. It's much smaller than the American cemetery at Colleville-Sur-Mer but has three times the burials. The contrast doesn't stop there. Where Colleville evokes pride, glory and respect, you truly feel loss and grief at La Cambe. Both are awesome in such different ways.
See -Carentan: Notre Dame de Carentan -1. Stained glass window with Knight kneeling with shield. On the shield is the 101st logo and their name at the bottom. Inside is where American GIs were photoed attending service with priest in front of the organ. 1A Headquarters of General Maxwell Taylor. -2. Rural roads around Utah beach are named after American soldiers killed with their name on a sign. 3. Shell craters are still visible at Utah beach, not as built up as Omaha Beach. Bunkers not on the Tourist Trail. Original house that survived the battle (private residence not open to public). 4. Market place where photo of awards ceremony was taken. - 5. Hike/bike trail through Bocage country where soldiers fought. Veron-Giverny - Claude Monets house and gardens. Romaine le Bourge - ist century Roman site with Museum and dig.
I was lucky enough to visit all of these except the Bayeux Tapestry. The highlight for me was finding the Ingouf farmhouse past bridge 4 on purple heart lane ( the causeway to Carentan from St.Come du Mont ) , where the paratroopers fixed bayonets in Lt.Col Cole's charge. And I was also able to locate the site of the battle for Hill 30 near La Billionaire. It is a fascinating area and really makes one think. Some of the places have changed a great deal in the seventy odd years since but others are pretty much exactly as they were.
Maybe British & Canadian cemeteries !, Pegasus Bridge, the remains of Mulberry Harbour, Merville battery, etc., etc. There are enough other things to see, if you happen to know that there were also other allied countries involved with D-day!
Thanks for the video, on my five visits to Normandy (on my motorcycle from the UK) I have been to all of the places you describe apart from dead man`s corner, I`m returning next year staying on the Omaha beach campsite, another interesting place to visit is the German cemetary just up the road from Virville, that is where tank ace Michael Vittman is buried.
Great video! I had the opportunity to visit all of these places except for the Maisy Battery in 2012. I didn’t know about the battery until after I returned home from Normandy, so I’m going to visit it next year in 2019 when I’m there for the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Also, the Airborne Experience at Dead Man’s Corner Museum didn’t exist until 2015 or 2016, so I have to see that next year also, but even the original museum was very cool to see. Something to note about John Steele getting caught on the church tower: he actually got hung up on the opposite corner of the tower, on the side facing away from the town square. It made for much better drama in The Longest Day for him to face the square and helplessly watch the battle. That’s one of many factual errors that kept me from liking that film. One correction to the narration: the peninsula is called the Cotentin Peninsula, not the Carentan Peninsula. Carentan is the town that the 101st Airborne Division had to secure to link the beaches that the Americans landed on. It’s at the base of the Contentin Peninsula.
Without question, the USA made the biggest contribution on D-Day, however, so did the British and Canadians, as well as Polish, Australians, French, Norwegian and Czech military who made up 50% of the invasion force. Respect to them all.
Great video and thanks! I was fortunate enough to catch four of these during a 2009 visit.
One add I would make is the German cemetery at La Cambe. It's much smaller than the American cemetery at Colleville-Sur-Mer but has three times the burials. The contrast doesn't stop there. Where Colleville evokes pride, glory and respect, you truly feel loss and grief at La Cambe. Both are awesome in such different ways.
Dieppe museum, memoire de bruneval. Not 1944, but there story must not be forgotten and is really interesting
Thank you so much! Some great great places for my bucket list!
Excellent video. Thanks for making & sharing
See -Carentan: Notre Dame de Carentan -1. Stained glass window with Knight kneeling with shield. On the shield is the 101st logo and their name at the bottom. Inside is where American GIs were photoed attending service with priest in front of the organ. 1A Headquarters of General Maxwell Taylor. -2. Rural roads around Utah beach are named after American soldiers killed with their name on a sign. 3. Shell craters are still visible at Utah beach, not as built up as Omaha Beach. Bunkers not on the Tourist Trail. Original house that survived the battle (private residence not open to public). 4. Market place where photo of awards ceremony was taken. - 5. Hike/bike trail through Bocage country where soldiers fought. Veron-Giverny - Claude Monets house and gardens. Romaine le Bourge - ist century Roman site with Museum and dig.
I was lucky enough to visit all of these except the Bayeux Tapestry.
The highlight for me was finding the Ingouf farmhouse past bridge 4 on purple heart lane ( the causeway to Carentan from St.Come du Mont ) , where the paratroopers fixed bayonets in Lt.Col Cole's charge.
And I was also able to locate the site of the battle for Hill 30 near La Billionaire.
It is a fascinating area and really makes one think.
Some of the places have changed a great deal in the seventy odd years since but others are pretty much exactly as they were.
Excellent, note that many of these museums are closed from Dec 1 until Feb 1 annually. Double check before you go.
Maybe British & Canadian cemeteries !, Pegasus Bridge, the remains of Mulberry Harbour, Merville battery, etc., etc. There are enough other things to see, if you happen to know that there were also other allied countries involved with D-day!
Thanks for the video, on my five visits to Normandy (on my motorcycle from the UK) I have been to all of the places you describe apart from dead man`s corner, I`m returning next year staying on the Omaha beach campsite, another interesting place to visit is the German cemetary just up the road from Virville, that is where tank ace Michael Vittman is buried.
Great video! I had the opportunity to visit all of these places except for the Maisy Battery in 2012. I didn’t know about the battery until after I returned home from Normandy, so I’m going to visit it next year in 2019 when I’m there for the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Also, the Airborne Experience at Dead Man’s Corner Museum didn’t exist until 2015 or 2016, so I have to see that next year also, but even the original museum was very cool to see.
Something to note about John Steele getting caught on the church tower: he actually got hung up on the opposite corner of the tower, on the side facing away from the town square. It made for much better drama in The Longest Day for him to face the square and helplessly watch the battle. That’s one of many factual errors that kept me from liking that film.
One correction to the narration: the peninsula is called the Cotentin Peninsula, not the Carentan Peninsula. Carentan is the town that the 101st Airborne Division had to secure to link the beaches that the Americans landed on. It’s at the base of the Contentin Peninsula.
Same here, and didn't know of the Maise Battery, there again, no-one was, engineers quickly buried it !!
Without question, the USA made the biggest contribution on D-Day, however, so did the British and Canadians, as well as Polish, Australians, French, Norwegian and Czech military who made up 50% of the invasion force. Respect to them all.