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  2. Arromanches-les-Bains - Wikipedia

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    0–55 m (0–180 ft) (avg. 15 m or 49 ft) 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Arromanches-les-Bains (French pronunciation: [aʁɔmɑ̃ʃ le bɛ̃] ⓘ; or simply Arromanches) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western ...

  3. Courseulles-sur-Mer - Wikipedia

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    More than 14,000 Canadians stormed the 8 kilometres (5 mi) stretch of a Lower Normandy Beach between Courseulles-sur-Mer and St. Aubin-sur-Mer on 6 June 1944. They were followed by 150,000 additional Canadian troops over the next few months, and throughout the summer of 1944 the Canadian military used the town’s port to unload upwards of 1,000 tons of material a day, for the first two weeks ...

  4. History of Normandy - Wikipedia

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    History of Normandy. Normandy was a province in the North-West of what later became France under the Ancien Régime which lasted until the later part of the 18th century. Initially populated by Celtic tribes in the West and Belgic tribes in the North East, it was conquered in AD 98 by the Romans and integrated into the province of Gallia ...

  5. Criel-sur-Mer - Wikipedia

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    Geography. Criel-sur-Mer is a town of farming, tourism and light industry situated in the valley and at the mouth of the river Yères, some 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Dieppe. The commune is served by the D16, D940 and the D925 roads. As with much of this coastline, huge chalk cliffs look out over the English Channel. At Criel, they rise to 107m.

  6. Operation Cobra - Wikipedia

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    Operation Cobra was an offensive launched by the First United States Army under Lieutenant General Omar Bradley seven weeks after the D-Day landings, during the Normandy campaign of World War II. The intention was to take advantage of the distraction of the Germans by the British and Canadian attacks around Caen in Operation Goodwood, [12] and ...

  7. American airborne landings in Normandy - Wikipedia

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    21,300 killed, wounded, and missing. American airborne landings in Normandy were a series of military operations carried by the United States as part of Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy by the Allies on June 6, 1944, during World War II. In the opening maneuver of the Normandy landings, about 13,100 American paratroopers from the ...

  8. Étretat - Wikipedia

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    Étretat. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Étretat (French pronunciation: [etʁəta]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of Northwestern France. It is a tourist and farming town situated about 32 km (20 mi) northeast of ...

  9. Cotentin Peninsula - Wikipedia

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    The Cotentin Peninsula (US: / ˌkoʊtɒ̃ˈtæ̃ /, [1] French: [kɔtɑ̃tɛ̃]; Norman: Cotentîn [kotɑ̃ˈtẽ] ⓘ), also known as the Cherbourg Peninsula, is a peninsula in Normandy that forms part of the northwest coast of France. It extends north-westward into the English Channel, towards Great Britain.

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