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. Read the rest of this entry »