06/05/2024
⚜️ 🗓️ Fleur de Lys Tours of Normandy: Sept.14th-21st, 2024
June 6, 2024 marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings along the Normandy coast during World War II. This event, which ultimately led to the liberation of Europe was the largest naval, air and land operation in history.
Few people really know how much Normandy suffered following 6 June 1944. Towns were razed to the ground in mass bomb attacks, battles raged, civilians were subjected to terrible suffering and many were evacuated.
As one of Normandy’s best D-Day sites, Pointe du Hoc proves that nothing is impossible.
Pointe du Hoc is a 100-foot cliff overlooking the English Channel. It’s the highest point between Utah Beach and Omaha Beach and at the time was fortified with a wall of German gun casemates.
On the morning of D-Day, the U.S. Army captured Pointe du Hoc after scaling the cliffs - a feat many previously believed to be impossible.
They did so with the use of grappling hooks and rope ladders that were fired from rocket launchers on their landing crafts. These heroes scaled a cliff with just rope while being shot at with automatic weapons from all angles.
The American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer is situated on the top of the cliff overlooking the famous Omaha Beach.
Omaha Beach is notoriously where American troops suffered the worst on D-Day, and the experience is surreal. Everything about it will shock you: the massive size, the weight you feel just by being there, and how this place was once total Hell on Earth.
Omaha Beach is ground zero for American D-Day history. Almost everything you know about D-Day happened right here.
Experience it yourself this September.
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