RHH's photos with the keyword: june 6 1944

One more photo of the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer near Omaha Beach. We found the visits to the D-Day cemeteries to be deeply moving though the history of World War 2 and D-day are too little remembered today.

This is the chapel at the Normandy American Cemetery near Colleville-sur-Mer and Omaha Beach. The cemetery has 9,388 graves of those killed on D-Day and after.

This is the reflecting pool at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer. The cemetery is located above Omaha Beach and contains 9388 graves. The photo looks across the pool to the graves area and the chapel.

The Normandy American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer above Omaha Beach is beautifully kept and a wonderful resting place for those who died on D-Day and after. There are 9,388 burials in the cemetery with a few being added from time to time when remains are discovered.

These are some of the concrete caissons used on D-Day and after to form an artificial harbor and piers at Arromanches. The caissons were towed across the English Channel and sunk to form the artificial harbor code-named "Mulberry." The harbor was later wrecked by a storm but part of it can still be seen out at sea and on the beach at Arromanches. Several parts are visible on the horizon just above these beached caissons.

Taken from the beach at Arromanches, where we walked the beach and took photos of the remains of the artificial harbors know as Mulberries, used on D-Day and after.

Here is the view to the east from Pointe du Hoc. Pointe du Hoc is promontory on the Normandy coast overlooking the beaches that on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were code-named Omaha. The American landings there were stalled until the Army Rangers scaled the cliffs and took the fortifications there.

This is one of the gun emplacements near Pointe du Hoc and Omaha Beach taken by the Army Rangers on D-Day, June 6, 1944. It stands on the cliffs above Omaha Beach and was a part of the defense that delayed the landings until the Army Rangers scaled the cliffs and took the fortifications there.

These are some of the graves at the Normandy American Cemetery near Omaha Beach. Many of the burials were of soldiers killed after D-day but there are 9,385 burials there.

When we visited the D-day sites at Arromanches we walked the beach and saw there the remains of the artificial harbors used bring in supplies. These harbors were code-named "Mulberries" and were later destroyed by a storm. The remains of one of them are on the beach and out at sea at Arromanches. The photo shows one of the caissons, which were towed across the English Channel on D-day, and which is now on the beach, and another out in the water off the beach. The inset shows the aftermath of a lunch of mussels enjoyed at La Baraka in Arromanches.

When we visited the D-day sites at Arromanches we had lunch at La Baraka, mussels with a glass of cider. My mussels were served with Camembert sauce and were incredibly good.

Taken from the cliffs to the east this is the beach and town of Arromanches-les-Bains. We visited and explored the area and walked the beach on one of the last days we were in Normandy. We finished the day at a cafe, La Baraka, in Arromanches and had a glass of cider and a pot of mussels there. On D-Day, Arromanches was at the center of Gold Beach, one of the British landing beaches and is famous for the artificial harbor that was set up there. The harbor was made of enormous concrete caissons towed across the English Channel and sunk at Arromanches to form the harbor. Remains of the harbor, visible in the photo, destroyed by a storm after D-Day, can still be seen in the water off the cliffs and on the beach.

One of the last places we visited in Normandy was Arromanches, on D-Day the center of Gold Beach, one of the British landing beaches. We explored the area, walked the beach and finished the day with a glass of cider and a bucket of mussels at La Baraka.

The area above Omaha Beach near Pointe du Hoc has been left as it was after the D-Day landings. Pointe du Hoc is a promontory which was taken by the US Army Rangers on D-Day who scaled 35 metre cliffs to take the fortifications there after the landings had stalled. The barbed wire in the photo was protecting a gun emplacement.

Here is the part of Omaha Beach below Pointe du Hoc, the place where the US Army Rangers scaled the cliffs to attack the fortifications above after the landings at Omaha Beach had stalled.

Omaha Beach, also known as Bloody Omaha for the many American casualties suffered there, was on its eastern end guarded by 35 metre cliffs and other fortifications. The American landings there stalled and were unable to advance until the Army Rangers scaled the cliffs at Point du Hoc and attacked the defenses there. The photos shows the cliffs to the west of Pointe du Hoc.

Pointe du Hoc is a promontory at Omaha Beach, sometimes known as Bloody Omaha, one of the American Beaches on D-Day. The American troops who landed there on D-Day were pinned down and were suffering many casualties because they were unable to scale the 35 metre cliffs above the beaches. After landing parts of two Army Ranger Battalions under the command of Lt. Col. James Rudder made it to the top of the cliffs with ropes and ladders and made it possible for the landings to advance. The memorial is supposed to represent a Ranger dagger thrust through the top of a bunker on the cliffs.

This is the reflecting pool that is part of the memorial at the Normandy American Cemetery near Omaha Beach. The statue, shown in the inset photo, that is part of the memorial is just visible at the other end of the pool, which lies between the visitors' center and the chapel.