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Nice pictures. I am heading to Brittany on Sunday so I hope to do some WW2 location visits too.

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I hope to visit those beaches someday. It'll be a strange feeling I think to stand on the beaches where the greatest coordinated military invasion in history took place. I hope to also visit Vimy Ridge, Diepe, The Somme, and maybe Paschendaele those are all famous Canadian sites from the World Wars I'd like to see. Good for you in seeing them.

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A couple years ago I spent about five days in Bayeux, a small town not far from the landing beaches and one of the first "major" towns liberated during the war. I believe it was declared the capital of Free France until Caen and Paris were liberated and was the site of de Gaulle's headquarters during the Normandy campaign.

Anyways, I visited Juno, Omaha, Pointe du Hoc and the American War Cemetery. I actually walked from Courseilles-sur-Mer to Bernieres-sur-Mer or the "Green" sector of Juno and was astonished at the distance between the two. Many people don't realize that they weren't landing in the huge numbers one might expect but instead only a dozen or so troops for a hundred meter stretch of shoreline. I have some photos I may put up if anyone is interested.

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I am off to Brittany tomorrow. Hopefully I'll be able to visit some WW2 locations and get some pictures for you all.

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