RHH's photos with the keyword: omaha beach

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.

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.

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.

This sculpture by Donald de Lue is at the Normandy American Cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach. The title of the sculpture is "Spirit of American Youth Rising from the Waves." It is at the east end of the reflecting pool that is part of the cemetery ground.

The Normandy-American Cemetery near Colleville-sur-Mer has 9,388 burials, many of soldiers killed after D-day. The cemetery is beautifully kept and overlooks Omaha Beach.

Many soldiers killed on D-Day and thereafter were often first buried with their rifle and helmet as a grave marker. When time allowed they were later reburied in one of the many cemeteries in Normandy and the rest of France. This example is in the visitors' center at the American Cemetery near Omaha Beach.

This is the reflecting pool just outside the visitors' center at the American Cemetery near Colleville-sur-Mer and Omaha Beach. We found visiting the D-Day sites and cemeteries to be a very moving and emotional experience.

I believe number on this simple monument at the Omaha Beach visitors' center represents the total number of Allied casualties on D-Day, though the number is disputed and varies widely among experts.