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Normandy, France, Days Three and Four, continued
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| The Allies not only had to storm the beaches, but they had to climb the hills and cliffs behind the beaches while under fire. | Omaha Beach today. |
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| A summer holiday-maker plays at the beach. | There are over 8,000 Americans buried in the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial on a cliff above Omaha Beach. |
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| Teddy Roosevelt's son died in France. He led the Utah Beach assault on D-Day at 57 years old. He died a month later of a heart attack. | The chapel at the American Cemetery. |
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The Memorial at the American Cemetery.
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Back of the Memorial. |
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| The C-47 building in the museum at Ste.-Mère-Eglise. | A closer view and proof that I was there. :) |
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| A full-sized glider was in the hanger. | Also a C-46. |
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| A better view of the Horsa Glider. | The War Museum at Utah Beach. |
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| Beside the museum, barbed wire and water "Spiders." A grim reminder of some of the barriers the attackers faced. | Bob on Utah Beach. |
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| There were several memorials at Utah Beach for fighting units. This one, a monumental stele, was for everyone involved in D-Day, the Sixth of June. | In French on one side and in English on the other, the monument reads: This monument was erected by The United States of America in humble tribute to its sons who lost their live in the liberation of these beaches. June 6, 1944 |
