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Normandy

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 Operation Overlord  We planted an American flag on the beach. We landed at Normandy at sun rise. We had a much more comfortable landing exiting the landing craft than they did on D Day. Nice comfortable ferry. Left at midnight and landed a 7:00.                                                  Omaha Beach, American Memorial                   We rented a car and headed to Juno Beach which is the Canadian landing beach. We stayed in a lovely Air B&B at Courseulles- sur-Mer  on the beach with a sunset/sunrise view.   We visited most of the D-Day landing beaches. Each had memorials and museums for each country that participated. The Canadian had an Imax which you entered a landing craft and the movie above showed what it looked like if you were landing on ...