Omaha Beach is the code name for one of the five sectors of the Allied Invasion of German occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6th June 1944, during World War 2.
The other landing beaches in the D-Day invasion were Utah (U.S.), Gold & Sword Beaches (U.K.) and Juno Beach (Canadian).
However, it was here at Omaha Beach that the memorial dedicated to the memory of the American soldiers who landed there in 1944, was established.
In the cemetery, 9837 soldiers are buried, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operation.
On the Walls of the Missing in a semicircular garden are inscribed 1557 names. Rosettes mark the names of those soldiers since recovered and identified.
The memorial is a beautiful and peaceful resting place for the soldiers. The grassy cemetery overlooks the beach where a lot of them died whilst trying to land on the beach head. Others died on the green fields that were studded with land mines.
The sheer number of white crosses, sitting stark against the green fields, was very dramatic and extremely moving.
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