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Near Utah Beach, Normandy Coast

On Saturday, we drove from Mont St. Michel up to the D-Day landing beaches on the Normandy Coast. It was a blustery, windy, cold day, probably much like what the soldiers faced on June 6, 1944 as they approached these same beaches to march to their probable deaths.

Today, the Normandy coast is mostly restored, beautiful and natural, although it still bears some of the scars of the German occupation and the bloody battles that were fought on its sands and soil. One can only imagine what the beaches and beach-heads must have looked like in 1944, covered with encampments, artillery posts, barbed wire, mines, and obstacles. It is a most powerful and emotionally-evocative place to visit...

Sat Apr 27 2002 01:28:50 PM

Technical data: Canon EOS D30, EF28-135/3.5-5.6IS at 28mm (44mm equiv), 1/200 sec. at f/11, ISO 100, +0 EV


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