2016 news of the Normandy landing beaches

2016 news from the Normandy landing beaches

On this page, you will find all the news from the Normandy historic area in 2016, from the D-Day landing beaches to the parachute drop zones of Operation Overlord, via the battlefields of the 1944 battles in Calvados, Manche and Orne.

	29 December 2016: A new Sherman tank for the Airborne Museum in Sainte-Mère-Eglise Just a few days into the New Year, the Airborne Museum in Sainte-Mère-Eglise is replacing the Sherman tank currently on display to its visitors.
	15 December 2016 : Days of War video game A new video game inspired by the Normandy landings will be available in January 2017. It is entitled Days of War.
	4 December 2016: Towards the closure of the Quinéville Memorial in Normandy? For the time being, the Quinéville Memorial will not be reopening for the season next spring, its managers have announced. Inaugurated in 2005, it has suffered from a drop in tourist numbers.
	30 November 2016: ‘Atlantic Wall’, a new film about the Normandy landings. The feature film ‘Atlantic Wall’ will be directed by Gavin O’Connor, who has cast American actor Bradley Cooper as an American paratrooper dropped behind enemy lines hours before D-Day.
	1 November 2016: Blockhouse for sale in Ver-sur-Mer. Remnant of the Atlantic Wall, a former blockhouse located in Ver-sur-Mer is for sale after conversion into a home. Price: €214,000.
	5 October 2016: Querqueville’s Yorck Battery is up for sale. Owned by the French Army until the early 2010s, the former historic site of the Querqueville battery in the Cotentin region is up for sale.
	30 September 2016: Debate on the project to repower the Vimoutiers Tiger tank The project to re-engineer the Vimoutiers Tiger tank by the Cativen association, does not meet with unanimous approval among some purists.
	28 September 2016: Garbo, the double agent who manipulated the Nazis Juan Pujol, codenamed Garbo, is considered one of the greatest double agents of the Second World War, who played a key role in the success of D-Day.
	10 September 2016: Southwick House command post park put up for sale Among the sites belonging to the UK Ministry of Defence up for sale is Southwick House Park. The land on which this superb historic property dating from 1800 is located is near Portsmouth.
	2 September 2016 : Spaces of memory in the face of the ‘Pokemon Go!’ phenomenon Since this summer, spaces of memory such as military cemeteries and Holocaust museums have been invaded by users of the game ‘Pokemon Go’, paving the way for a major debate.
	23 August 2016: Top 30 most-visited tourist sites in France in 2015 The French Ministry of Tourism has published a list of the 30 most visited tourist attractions in France in 2015, including the Colleville-sur-Mer American War Cemetery.
	22 August 2016: Two 90-year-old veterans parachute jump! Frederick Glover and Ted Pieri, two veterans of British airborne divisions, made their big jump on Saturday 20 August 2016 at Merville Battery.
	21 August 2016: Auction of the Normandy Tank Museum collection Inaugurated in 2013, the Normandy Tank Museum will close on 18 September 2016 due to various difficulties. Its collection is being offered for auction as part of an exceptional sale.
	19 August 2016: 74th anniversary of the Dieppe landings On 19 August 2016, the town of Dieppe commemorated the 74th anniversary of the Dieppe landings (Operation Jubilee) in the presence of veterans and patriotic organisations.
	8 August 2016: Ceremony in tribute to Private Gérard Doré A ceremony was held on Sunday 7 August in Cintheaux in memory of the youngest Canadian soldier killed in 1944, Gérard Doré.
	4 August 2016: The Vimoutiers Tiger tank soon to be restored For forty years, the German tank from Vimoutiers has been on display by the roadside. Rust-ridden, an association wants to restore it.
	1 August 2016: Tribute to the 2nd DB at Saint-Martin-de-Varreville There were few of them, just a handful of veterans, present at the Leclerc monument on Sunday morning for the 72nd anniversary of the landing of General Leclerc’s legendary 2nd DB.
	22 July 2016: The 1940 airfield in Argentan comes out of oblivion A German army airfield that served from July 1940 to March 1941 between Argentan and Occagnes has been brought out of oblivion. Thanks to never-before-seen photos and some of the remnants of this historic episode that are still present.
	8 July 2016: Administrative green light for wind farms in Normandy The first three offshore wind farms planned off the French coast, piloted by EDF, have now been given the green light by the Prefectures, but associations are working on an appeal against one of them.
	2 July 2016 : British victory at Utah Beach England’s Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data) won the first stage of the 2016 Tour de France on Saturday 2 July at Utah Beach, Sainte-Marie-du-Mont (Manche).
	27 June 2016: inauguration of a commemorative plaque in Cheux On Monday 27 June 2016, seventy-two years after the liberation of the commune, a plaque was unveiled in honour of four young soldiers who died in Cheux.
	24 June 2016: Holocaust denier Vincent Reynouard finally sentenced Vincent Reynouard had targeted several associations in Normandy dedicated to the duty of remembrance. He has been definitively convicted by the Court of Cassation in Paris.
	22 June 2016: Normandy Tank Museum closes The Normandy Tank Museum, near Carentan, will close on 18 September 2016. The tank collection will be auctioned off.
	19 June 2016: Practical information for the Tour de France 2016 in Normandy The start of the 2016 Tour de France takes place on Saturday 2 July at Mont-Saint-Michel, in the Manche département. Here is a summary and practical information for the three stages in Normandy.
	16 June 2016: ‘Ces hommes-là’ exhibition at the Utah Beach Museum Since Wednesday, the Utah Beach Museum has been offering an original and moving exhibition featuring life-size portraits of eight D-Day veterans.
	12 June 2016 : Ammunition found near Sainte-Mère-Eglise. A munitions depot was found on the evening of Friday 10 June in Saint-Martin-de-Varreville. A mine clearance operation is expected to take place shortly.
	8 June 2016: They meet… 72 years later! Jack Port and Gérard Medaisko met for the first time yesterday in Deauville. 72 years after D-Day.
	7 June 2016: The spirit of the Rangers saluted at Pointe du Hoc. ‘Pointe du Hoc had to be taken, the success of the Landing depended on it’. 72 years after their heroic ascent, a tribute was paid to Colonel Rudder’s GI’s.
	5 June 2016: Operation Overlord T5, the Pointe du Hoc on 6 June 1944. Bruno Falba, Davide Fabbri and Christian Dalla Vecchia are in charge of the pencils for this album, published to mark the 2016 commemoration of D-Day in the Overlord collection.