Conductor, this is my last post on this. I hope you and your wife enjoy your trip. i suggest no less than two, and preferably three full days to properly see Normandy landing beaches.
Regards,
Louis of PA

From:

http://www.eriksvane.com/dday4.htm

“By the end of twenty minutes, Williams and ten men are over the sand and resting in the lee of the sea wall. Five others are hit by machine-gun fire crossing the beach; six men, last seen while taking cover in a tidal pocket, are never heard from again. More mortar fire lands around the party as Williams leads it across the road beyond the sea wall. The men scatter. When the shelling lifts, three of them do not return…

“Indeed, for some the racket was worst of all: "The noise," said another, "always the noise, naval gunfire, small arms, artillery, and mortar fire, aircraft overhead, engine noises, the shouting and the cries of the wounded".

“But the sounds weren't what one soldier, who'd been wounded after coming ashore in one of the subsequent assault waves, remembered: "As I painfully walked back to the beach, thousands of parts of bodies lined it. There were floating, heads, arms, legs. I realized what being in the first wave was all about."


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