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WORLD WAR 1
WORLD WAR 2
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Remember
that you get this map included with your guide book so
when you choose your free map choose one of the others. eg
this
one below -
Or
if you wish one of the maps of the
First
World War eg
Ypres
Somme
Gallipoli
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MAIN SITES VISITED ON THE ITINERARIES
Batteries, Bunkers, Preserved Sites: Azeville;
Crisbecq; Longues; Merville Battery; Mulberry
Harbour; Point du Hoc
Beaches: UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, JUNO, SWORD
and airborne drop/landing zones
Cemeteries: American National, St Laurent;
Bayeux CWGC; La Cambe, German; Ranville CWGC
Memorials: Around 200 including- Gen Montgomery,
Colleville-Montgomery; Gen Eisenhower, Bayeux
Museums: Arromanches Debarquement; Bayeux
Battle of Normandy; Caen Memorial; Cherbourg Fort
du Roule; Douvres Radar; Grandcamp Rangers; Merville
Battery; Ouistreham Atlantic Wall; Pegasus Bridge
Airborne; Portsmouth D-Day; St Laurent D-Day;
Ste Mere Eglise Airborne; UTAH Beach; Ver-sur-Mer
GOLD
Towns, Villages: Arromanches; Bayeux; Benouville;
Beny; Caen; Carentan; Cherbourg; Courseulles;
Creully; Crepon; Douvres; Hermanville; Ouistreham;
Port-en-Bessin;
Ranville; Ste Mere Eglise; Ver-sur-Mer; Vierville |
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CONTENTS
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- How to Use this Guide
- Historical Summary
- Approach One: Portsmouth-Cherbourg
- Approach Two: Calais-Caen
- Itinerary One: US Airborne Operations/UTAH
Beach
- Itinerary Two: US Rangers Operations / OMAHA
Beach
- Itinerary Three: Bayeux / GOLD Beach
- Itinerary Four: JUNO & SWORD Beaches
- Itinerary Five: British Airborne Operations
- Wargraves, Commemorative Assocs,
- Tourist Info,
- Indexes: Forces, General, Memorials, Museums,
Cemeteries
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Major
and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide to the Normandy
Beaches
is the most detailed and comprehensive guide book
covering the present-day battlefield, and the
actions that took place on and immediately behind
the D-Day beaches, ever published.
The third in the Holts' important series of Battlefield
Guides (following the Somme and the Ypres Salient)
it employs the same, highly acclaimed formula.
Once again the cold facts are interlaced with
anecdotes of bravery, humour, sadness and humanity
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• … here RSM Stan Hollis won the VC
• … here nine pairs of brothers are buried
• … here the poet Keith Douglas landed
• … here lie the men who inspired Saving Private
Ryan
• … here John Steele hung on the church steeple
It includes:
• 2 different Approach Routes/5 recommended,
timed Itineraries
• Sketch maps in all the Itineraries
• Historical background to the Landings
• The plans and what actually happened on D-Day
• Over 300 memorials, large and small
• Museums, batteries and bunkers
• American, Commonwealth. German and Polish
Cemeteries and Veterans' Commemorative
Associations
• Useful tourist information
• Full colour illustrations throughout
Packaged with
the Battle Map of the Normandy Landing Beaches
Showing the sea Assault formations for UTAH, OMAHA,
GOLD, JUNO and SWORD Beaches and the air Assault
Formations round Ste Mère Eglise and Pegasus Bridge;
the D-Day Objectives and the Ground Gained on
D-Day.
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The Normandy American National Cemetery,
St Laurent The Memorial showing
the Spirit of America statue and the Reflective
Pool. On the wall behind the Memorial are listed
the names of the 1,557 Missing. In the Cemetery
beyond the pool are buried 9,286 American servicemen
and women who died in the Normandy Battles of
1944, including Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt. |
The 6 June 1944
Museum, Arromanches
Containing models of the Landing Beaches,
the
famous Mulberry Harbour, & a 1944 British
Admiralty film of the construction of 'Port
Winston'.
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The Pegasus Cafe, Benouville
Run by the Monsieur & Madame Gondrée, this
was the first café in France to be liberated
in the early hours of 6 June by Major John Howard
of the Oxs & Bucks in his daring coup de
main glider landings. It now contains memorabilia
of that historic day.
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Bayeux Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery
This beautifully maintained cemetery contains
4,648 Allied (Australian, British, Canadian, Czechoslovakian,
French, Italian, New Zealand, Polish, Russian
and South African) graves, including Cpl Sidney
Bates, VC.
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Hetzer Tank, Bayeux Museum of the Battle of
Normandy .
This
spectacular SP anti-tank gun is in the grounds
of this fascinating museum which contains many
unique documents, photographs, dioramas of the
Falaise Pocket and other battles. |
 Piper
Bill Millin, SWORD Beach
Bill was the personal Piper of Lord Lovat of No
4 Commando who ordered him to play "Highland
Laddie" as they landed here at 0820 on 6
June. |
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 Bunker,
Pointe du Hoc
This is typical of the many remnants of Hitler's
'Atlantic Wall' that still exist along the Normandy
coast. The Pointe du Hoc area, where the American
Rangers made their dramatic landing, has been
preserved with all its original shell craters
and bunkers
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 Information
Centre,
German Cemetery, la Cambe
By the modern building, complete with computer
access to all 1944 German and Allied burials in
Normandy,
is one of the many local authority information
'totems'
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are over 200 coloured illustrations like this in the
book
All are much larger and a great
deal clearer!
Remember
you can choose a free map and if you wish have your
book signed |
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