Why The DDay Beaches In Normandy, France Are Worth Visiting

In June of 2024, the world marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. If the coverage inspired you to look into making a trip to Northern France, this video should get you started with your planning.
Utah Beach, the western-most landing point on D-Day, is now home to a museum and 80-year-old military equipment.
There are 100 monuments and museums in the area.
A metallic monument to the lost, called "The Braves" stands at Omaha Beach.
All 5 landing beaches are within a one-hour drive of each other.
Getting to Normandy is very easy. You can take a tour from Paris, or take a road trip. Rather than rent a car and navigate through Paris, I'd suggest taking the train north to Caen. You'll find car rental options right at the train station in the small city. From here, it's an easy, enjoyable ride through Normany.
Other sites to see include the ancient abbey, Mont St. Michel, which the Nazis used as a lookout during WWII. Etretat and Honfleur are also worth spending time in.
Normandy welcomes 2 million people every year to the various WWII-related sites, including the Normandy American Cemetery, where 9,387 Americans are buried.
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[@michaelmika2995]

I was born in Paris in 1943 and was sent to Ellon, Normandy to my grandparent's house to be safe by my father. I was there on D-Day at 9-months. The stories my mother told me are hard to believe. She said she was on the road when she heard planes' as a caravan of German tanks and trucks drove by. Five, long, hours later the bombs stopped blowing up and she went back to see that her mother was OK. The caravan was nothing but charcoal. She saw a wooden box smoldering and opened it with a stick. It was full of German hand grenades. She slowly lowered the cover and walked away. Suddenly, the box blew up and we were unhurt. She was not alive to see the youtube videos of the brave pilots strafing German caravans in Normandy. Those were the ones in the P-47s doing the strafing. I returned with her and my daughter for the 50th Anniversary at Arromanches, where I went swimming until I was seven. Tears filled my eyes for the brave young men who gave their lives for the rest of us to have a free world. I could not be there for the 75th anniversary, as I suffered from a stroke. My body was in the U.S. but my heart was in Normandy. I still cry as I write this for the brave men who are still not identified and returned to their great country. GOD BLESS AMERICA.....and Great Britain and Canada...

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Thanks, Jared. Mesa resident here.