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Normandy, France, Tour: Days Three and Four
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| Problems with our bus delayed our start Sunday morning. | The tour group waits patiently outside the hotel for the tour to begin. |
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| Merville Battery, gun casements and support bunkers aimed at Sword Beach. I only got one photo because of dense fog. | A tribute to a Scots unit is near the field where British paratroopers landed to attack Storm Beach from the rear. |
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| Villa Bois de Monts, now privately owned, was Otway's headquarters near Storm Beach. | The remains of a WWII jeep, left beside the drive into Villa Bois de Monts. |
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The "Fields of Caen" spread from the back of Villa Bois de Monts.
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Soldiers under Otway used this shed for the work of identifying bodies and burying them. |
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| Some of the soldiers scratched their names on the shed wall. | The lonely grave of a Private Wilkonson remains at the Villa. |
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| Villa Bois de Monts overlooks forest and field. | I took this from our seat, which was at the front of the bus. |
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| Lunch on Sunday was a Port-au-Bessin, another seaside resort town. | The end of another tasty French lunch. |
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| Our lunch table had a view of the boat basin. | The map of Operation Overlord (the D-Day invasion) at Bréville Ridge. |
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| Tour guide Mike Overshaw uses the map to tie together our experiences. | Omaha Beach, where the Americans landed on D-Day. |
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| Omaha Beach is at the base of a sloped seawall. | Bob has completed his tribute. He stood on the beach at Trebah, Cornwall, where a battalion of American soldiers left for Omaha Beach. Now he stands on Omaha Beach, where so many of them died. |
