Remains of an elegiac day – part 1 – Omaha Beach

The previous post ended with our group’s stop at the German battery at Longue-sur-Mer about eight kilometers west of Arromanches and 16 kilometers east of Omaha Beach. Once we arrive at the latter, we will have passed from the British …

Arromanches didn’t need a blue lagoon standing by – part 3

Just outside the small but interesting D-Day Museum at Arromanches you can see a plaque declaring Port Winston (the name the Allies bestowed on the Mulberry harbour there) “The key of the liberation of Europe.” In some ways this might …

Arromanches didn’t need a blue lagoon standing by – part 2

The D-Day beaches. The Allied assault on Normandy that began at about 06:30 on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 spanned a length of coastline that stretched some 80 kilometers from Ouistreham in the east to Saint-Martin-de-Varreville on the west. From east …