[Phogge]

Walked the cemetery, strode the beaches and Pointe du Hoc. Hiked throughout the hedgerow country, did day trips from a wonderful chateau outside of St. Lo. To us the most moving places were at Vierville, down the beach from Omaha where the town erected a memorial to the US Coast Guardsmen who were killed during the invasion and the little village of Ste Marie Du Mont where the 506th PIR engaged the Germans just south of Utah. The small museum at Arromanches to me was more powerful than the museums at St.Lo and Caen. A Higgins Boat graced the upper floor. The remains of the concrete piers manufactured in the UK are still visible there off shore.

[Phogge]

Walked the cemetery, strode the beaches and Pointe du Hoc. Hiked throughout the hedgerow country, did day trips from a wonderful chateau outside of St. Lo. To us the most moving places were at Vierville, down the beach from Omaha where the town erected a memorial to the US Coast Guardsmen who were killed during the invasion and the little village of Ste Marie Du Mont where the 506th PIR engaged the Germans just south of Utah. The small museum at Arromanches to me was more powerful than the museums at St.Lo and Caen. A Higgins Boat graced the upper floor. The remains of the concrete piers manufactured in the UK are still visible there off shore.