Omaha Beach American Cemetery

The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial overlooks Omaha beach and contains the graves of 9,389 US military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations.

We managed to find the graves of the 2 Niland brothers who inspired the Saving Private Ryan movie.
After a set of 4 brothers had all been killed in action some months before, the US govt made a policy that no family would lose all their sons again. There were 4 brothers, 2 killed in the western front & 1 that they thought was killed in the Pacific, so they sent the 4th home. Luckily the brother in the Pacific was a POW and survived as well.Read more