Normandy D-Day

 Left Paris on Saturday afternoon drove to Bayeux for the night.

With its proximity to the Landings beaches, for WWII Bayeux became a transit hub for both soldiers and civilians.

The town was strategically positioned for the Allies with thousands of soldiers and vehicles passing through on their way to the combat zones. But their machines could not get through the narrow streets of the medieval city. Allied engineering units built a road around the town – the Bypass – to facilitate the flow of traffic. The D-Day Landing Museum is located in the town Arromanches-les-Bains, 10 kms away the geographical center

 of the D-Day beaches. It is located at the exact point where the Allies have implanted, from June 7, 1944, one of the two artificial ports with prefabricated harbour huge logistical engineering feat responsible for supplying over 2.5 million men, 500,000 vehicles, and 4 million tons of supplies were landed and was used for 10 months after D-Day. Also visited the American War Cemetery at Omaha Beach 172.5 acres and contains the graves of over 9000 of military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings. 

Lest We Forget.