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April 19th 2015

Published: June 16th 2017

Geo: 51.5002, -0.126236Pegthought we would give you some more info from the Churchill War Museum. It was extremely well done. Not only do you tour the rooms that it all really happened in, with an audio guide, but they also have a huge interactive section chronicling Churchill's life. You could spend hours in there if you are really interested in his life and history.With the audio tour, there... Read Full Entry

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American Cemetery at Normandy

Theodore Roosevelt Jr is buried here. Medal of Honor. He did not die not he beach, but died a few months later They brought his brother Quentin here from another cemetery where he was buried so they could be together. he did in WW1.

American cemetery

American Cemetery at Normandy

View from the cemetery looking out over Omaha Beach

American Cemetery at Normandy

The visitors center, which has only been there 7 years has a wonderful museum. This is part of it.

American Cemetery

Giant wall displays

American Cemetery

Cliff the Army Rangers had to climb

To get to Pointe du Hoc

Pointe du Hoc

Memorial on top of the bunker at Pointe du Hoc

Sign for the Rangers

At Pointe du Hoc

Entry to the Bunker

At Pointe du Hoc

German cemetery at Normandy

british gun at Arromanche

Guide explained how these guns couldn't compete with the germans. they hadn't been redesigned since the late 1800s, just upgraded. They couldn't fire fast enough and had to be re-aimed after every shot because of the recoil

Sign

List of cemeteries

Dot at the American Cemetery

It was beautiful

View

German cemetery at Normandy

German grouping

At Pointe du Lac

German cemetery at Normandy

The door of German cemetery was built so narrow to show that everyone who died was an individual??

27th April 2015

peggy
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Wow! you took in a lot of info. I would think both guide's views are correct.Some parts of France had been part of Germany in previous wars. But otherparts felt the full force of German occupation, with killing of civilians forreprisals, etc. I will t
ell you I just learned this week that some American POWsspent several months in a concentration camp in Germany, alongsideJews, etc. Things keep coming out as people want to tell their stories beforethey die and all is lost.

27th April 2015

peggy
non-member comment

Wow! you took in a lot of info. I would think both guide's views are correct.Some parts of France had been part of Germany in previous wars. But otherparts felt the full force of German occupation, with killing of civilians forreprisals,
etc. I will tell you I just learned this week that some American POWsspent several months in a concentration camp in Germany, alongsideJews, etc. Things keep coming out as people want to tell their stories beforethey die and all is lost.

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