D-Day Landing Beaches, France

June 30, 2010 - Posted in Beach Holidays

The D-Day Beaches in Normandy, France, has a soft sand dunes and coves, which everybody will love. This beach is a witness to one of history’s greatest moments during wartime. This is the place where 100,000 soldiers lost their lives in a bid to secure and liberate this section of Europe from the rule of the Germans. Once, this coastline is a strategic defense line, which then was transformed into an unbroken fortress armed with land mines, guns, wire, beach obstacles and pillboxes. The name of this beach, D-Day, refers to June 6, 1944, when the assembly of Allied troops which brings warships, tugboats, jeeps and landing craft, arrived and occupied the area.

Beside D-Day beaches, there are some other code names which is given during wartime, such as Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. These beaches still bear traces of the fighting that occurred between the Allied and German forces. In the Omaha Beach, there is a monument that is dedicated for the soldiers who risked life and limb in their bid to liberate Europe. In the Utah Beach, you can see the U.S. monument which is dedicated to the 4th U.S. Infantry Division.

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