It is 15 years since I visited Normandy - principally to buy wine! We visited some of the D-Day sites, so here are a few photos.
We visited the Chateau d'Audrieu, now a 5-star hotel, because my sister-in-law was at that time nursing a veteran who had been there during the war and had asked her to visit. I include a photo of the place because I later learned that it was the site of numerous murders of Canadian Royal Winnipeg Rifles and British Green Howards PoWs by the 12th SS following the Normandy landings - may they rest in peace. https://www.normandywarguide.com/articles/the-massacre-of-24-canadian-and-2-british-pows-at-chateau-d-audrieu-normandy
I rather think my sister-in-law's patient was there a little later as part of a British military staff group.
In the Ste-Mère-Eglise photo, notice the parachute and parachutist hanging from the church tower - a memorial to a brave airman. One of my principal memories of this trip was the depth of French gratitude reflected in the numerous memorials everywhere we went.
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