Encyclopaedia of the D-Day landings and the Battle of Normandy
Auction of the Normandy Tank Museum collection August 21, 2016: Auction of the Normandy Tank Museum Collection Source: AFP Author: Marc Laurenceau The year 2016 was a fateful one for the Normandy Tank Museum, the third space dedicated to the memory of the Battle of Normandy to close in less than two years. Last June, … Read more
Traffic information for the Tour de France 2016 in Normandy Source: Préfecture de la Manche Author: Marc Laurenceau The start of the 2016 Tour de France takes place on Saturday 2 July at Mont-Saint-Michel, in the Manche département. For three days, Normandy will be welcoming 22 teams and 198 cyclists to its land, which is … Read more
Jack Port and Gerard Medaisko meet in Normandy 8 June 2016: They meet again… 72 years later! Source: Ouest-France Author: Pauline Darvey Jack Port and Gérard Medaisko met for the first time yesterday in Deauville. 72 years after D-Day. Complicity. When you see these two men chatting on the terrace of the Barrière New Golf … Read more
Ammunition discovered near Sainte-Mère-Eglise 12 June 2016 : Ammunition discovered near Sainte-Mère-Eglise. Source: Ouest-France Author: – On the evening of Friday, 10th June 2016, an anonymous person called the police to report the discovery of a stockpile of munitions dating from the Second World War in Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, in the dune near the Leclerc monument. The … Read more
Exhibition « Those Men » at the Utah Beach Museum June 16, 2016: “Those Men” exhibition at the Utah Beach Museum Source: Ouest-France Author: – Since Wednesday, the Utah Beach Museum has been offering an original and moving exhibition featuring life-size portraits of eight D-Day veterans. The exhibits include those of Marine Vernon (aka Moon) … Read more
Operation Overlord T5, Pointe du Hoc June 5, 2016: Operation Overlord T5, Pointe du Hoc on June 6, 1944. Source: Ligne Clair Author: – This is one of the most famous episodes of the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944. A battalion of Rangers was landed at the foot of Pointe du Hoc to climb … Read more
The spirit of the Rangers hailed at Pointe du Hoc 7 juin 2016 : L’esprit des Rangers salué à la Pointe du Hoc. Source : La Renaissance Le Bessin Auteur : Coralie Ganivet « La Pointe du Hoc devait être prise, le succès du Débarquement en dépendait ». 72 ans après leur ascension héroïque, un hommage … Read more
Towards the closing of the Quinéville Memorial? The Mémorial de la Liberté retrouvée, inaugurated in 2005, has suffered from the drop in tourist numbers. 4 December 2016: Le Mémorial is looking for a buyer Author: Kevin Verger Source: Ouest-France For the time being, the Quinéville Memorial will not be reopening for the season next spring, its … Read more
Days of War is a multiplayer video game available from January 2017 and inspired by the world of the Battle of Normandy in 1944. 15 December 2016 : Days of War video game Author: Marc Laurenceau For four years, fans of historical video games have been waiting for the release of a new creation inspired by … Read more
Les vestiges d’une barge du Débarquement ont été découverts sur la plage de Merville, en Normandie. Des archéologues dénoncent le dégagement du site par la mairie. 13 avril 2017 : Une barge de débarquement découverte en Normandie… puis détruite. Source : France 3 Normandie D’un morceau de métal … à une barge du Débarquement Au départ, … Read more