Operation Overlord

This is a sobering day indeed and the primary reason most of us chose this trip. The morning is given over to walking Omaha Beach in the British sector. Our guide describes the massive military and planning preparations for the assault. The ingenuity of the planning and the difficulty of the assault on the beaches really cannot be grasped even though we are standing on the edge of the beach near a German bunker, part of the German defenses of the coast. This 'Atlantic Wall' of cannons stretched from Norway to the Spanish border. Every part is enormous. The munitions are protected from allied bomb runs in concrete underground shelters.

Later in the day we visit the American Cemetery at Point du Hoc. They are playing taps at the moment we arrive. No one speaks. There are no words for what we see.Weiterlesen