27/04 - Memorial Museum and D-Day Beaches of Normandy

In the morning, we joined a 1/2 day tour at the Memorial Museum to the Harbour of Arromanches, Normandy American Cemetery, Omaha Landing Beach, and Pointe du Hoc. It was a cold and rainy morning. From the museum, we hopped into a van with a guide for the Harbour of Aromanches, where remnants of wartime articial harbours were still on the beach and out in the sea. These articial landing platforms were prefabricated in England. During the D-day operation, these concrete and steel structures were dumped into the sea to form a series of landing strips for te Allies supply ships. We could only take pictures of these amazing structures from a cliff high above the beach. We then moved on to Normandy American Cemetery, where more than 9000 soldiers were buried.