Gold beach is more than 5 miles wide and includes the towns of La Rivière, Le Hamel and Arromanches. The British 50th Infantry Division reinforced by the British 8th Armoured Brigade landed in two brigade groups at Gold beach. The 47th Royal Marine Commando landed on the western flank with the objective to take Port-en-Bessin.
18. Musee America Gold Beach (America Gold Beach museum), Ver-sur-Mer
This museum recounts the 1st airmail flight between the USA and France, together with a retrospective of the D-Day Landing and the British beachhead on Gold Beach.
2 Place Amiral Byrd - 14114 Ver-sur-Mer, Tel 02 31 22 58 58
Gold Beach overlooking Arromanches, site of the Mulberry harbour, and reenactment soldier in US Uniform.
19. Arromanches 360
The film “The Price Of Freedom” impressively mixes archived film from June 1944 with present day pictures and is presented on 9 screens in a circular theater.
Chemin du Calvaire – BP 9 – 14117 Arromanches, Tel 02 31 22 30 30
20. Arromanches
At Arromanches, you’re looking down a stretch of Gold Beach and site of the Mulberry harbour. The invasion needed a port to bring in supplies on a huge scale. So the allies built concrete pontoons that were towed across the channel and sunk to form the port’s outer perimeter. Twenty of the original 115 pontoons still defy the waves.
21. Musée du Débarquement (The Landing Museum), Arromanches
Located in front of the actual vestiges of the Mulberries, this museum is devoted to the incredible feat of technology achieved by the British in building and setting up the artificial harbour. Period newsreel movie in English and French. Impressive dynamic scale-models showing how the floating docks rolled with the waves and tides. A 75-foot section of Mulberry floating bridge on display outside. Military equipment is on display outside, including an American half-track and a Higgins boat.
Place du 6 Juin - 14117 Arromanches, Tel. 02 31 22 34 31 (£3.90),
The Longues-sur-Mer battery housed four 150 mm guns with a range of 20 kms
22. Batterie de Longues, Longues-sur-Mer
The Longues-sur-Mer battery housed four 150 mm guns with a range of 20 kms and gave the Allied ships a pounding on the morning of 6th June. It is the only coastal battery to have kept its guns, giving an impressive picture of what an Atlantic Wall gun emplacement was really like.
14400 Longues-sur-Mer, Tel. 02 31 06 06 45, Access from the D514 road (follow the road-signs).
23. Site de Port-en-Bessin
A Monument in memory of the 47th Royal Marine Commando soldiers who were killed during the liberation of Port-en-Bessin and Asnelles is located on top of the cliff, at the western side of the harbor.
24. Musée des épaves sous-marines (Under-water wrecks museum), Port-en-Bessin
This museum presents recovered wrecks and artifacts from more than twenty-five years of under-water exploration, in the coastal landing area. Wrecks include a Sherman tank.
Route de Bayeux - Commes - 14520 Port-en-Bessin, Tel. 02 31 21 17 06
25. Musée Memorial de la Bataille de Normandie, (Battle of Normandy Memorial Museum), Bayeux
This museum offers a chronological presentation of the events of the Battle of Normandy along with an exhibition of equipment, small arms, weapons and uniforms, films, mementoes and slides. English and French. Outside: German "Marder" anti-tank vehicle, Sherman Tank, American tank destroyer, and a British "crocodile" flame-throwing tank. Inside: American self-propelled 105 mm howitzer, Radio truck, armored bulldozer, American quad-50 caliber anti-aircraft gun (aka "meat chopper"), and several other large weapons. One of the best D-Day museums to offer a balance of artifacts on the one hand together with explanations and historical context on the other.
Bd Fabian Ware - 14400 Bayeux, Tel. 02 31 51 46 90
26. Musee Memorial du General de Gaulle (General de Gaulle Memorial), Bayeux
Situated in the former Governors House, this museum is dedicated to the numerous visits made by the General to Bayeux and in particular, the two important speeches delivered on 14 June 1944 and 16 June 1946. Film archives, photos, manuscripts, documents and memorabilia.
10, rue Bourbesneur - 14400 Bayeux, Tel. 02 31 92 45 55
27. Bayeux War Cemetery
Bayeux War Cemetery is the largest British cemetery of the Second World War in France, containing the graves of 3,843 British soldiers. The Bayeux Memorial stands opposite the war cemetery and bares the names of 1808 Commonwealth soldiers who have no known grave.
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