At dawn on June 6, 1944, D-Day, the Americans land on our shores at Utah Beach and by air over St. Mere Eglise and Carentan.
The 82nd and 101st Airborne paratroopers land in their thousands with the aim of liberating the Cotentin peninsula all the way to to Cherbourg, a deep water port that will allow the delivery of supplies. They also set about linking up Utah Beach and Omaha Beach.
Our land is steeped in history, recounting the episodes of this great military operation through numerous sites, museums and historical tours of the beaches, the liberated towns, the D-Day Landing Museum, the German gun batteries in the Atlantic coastline, the Orglandes German cemetery and the Open Air Museum.
