Colleville Sur Mer
Colleville sur Mer and Omaha Beach
95 km from campsite
Just 1h10 from your Normandy campsite, Omaha Beach is probably the most famous beach of the Normandy landings. It was here, on D-Day, that over 34,000 American soldiers encountered two German divisions. The Allies suffered appalling losses: 1,000 dead and almost 2,000 wounded. A fascinating discovery during your camping holiday to give you an idea of what the Normandy landings were like.
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The Omaha Beach Memorial Museum features collections of uniforms, personal objects, weapons and vehicles (including a 155mm American Tom long gun unique in Normandy and a US Sherman tank), as well as photographs and archives from the occupation period through to D-Day.
At the Overlord Museum, you can follow the progress of operations from the Allied landings to the liberation of Paris, through valuable historical artefacts found on the battlefields of Normandy (soldiers’ uniforms and personal effects, aircraft, tanks, cannons, etc.)
Overlooking Omaha Beach, the Colleville sur Mer American cemetery is one of France’s most popular tourist sites. Nearly 10,000 white crosses on a 70-hectare site remind us of the ultimate sacrifice of the fallen. To see: the chapel, the memorial and the garden of the missing, the ceremony of the colors every day at 16h15 or 17h15.