If you get the chance, I can't recommend a trip to Normandy too highly. The 6th June 1944 saw the greatest seaborne invasion ever launched, when the allied armies landed once more on the coast of Northern Europe. My own father landed there on D+26, having only been back in the UK since 1 June 1944, after being in North Africa and Italy continuously from 1940 through to 1944. From the gun batteries at Longues sur Mere and behind Utah beach, the inland strongpoint at Hillman, the radar museum at Douvres and the underwater wrecks museum outside Port en Bessin, there is lots to fascinate the visitor. It you want to be moved, visit the War Graves Cemetaries and the moonscape that is still the Pointe du Hoc.
Today there are well signposted tourist routes, museums and memorials a-plenty to see, and the remains of the Mulberry Harbour, along with the bunkers of the Atlantic Wall which still make fascinating viewing. Just standing on the beach at Omaha, and looking up at the bluffs will teach you a lot while you stand on beaches whose names are now forever known as Gold, Sword, Juno, Omaha and Utah. I hope you find these pages of interest.
There are a number of guide books to help you, but I personally like the series of "Normandy Guides" from Sutton Publishing. In addition, a good map and the After the Battle books on D-Day are really useful to have as a reference.
The links on the right will take you to additional pages, covering each beach, along with a link to another section which has even more entries, about specific sites. I hope you enjoy them.
Normandy Beaches
There is just no substitute for visiting the real battlefields of WW2 in Europe if you have an opportunity to do so.
Links to other Small Scale Scene sites:-
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Military Modelling website
Section 2 - Normandy, Battlefields and even more models...
Small Scale Scene - The Real Battlefields
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