From: Nigel Hay MILWEB (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Tue Sep 09 2003 - 12:53:00 PDT
Paris to Normandy is about 4 hours to the beaches - depending on how you
drive
Just get down to Arromanches and start from there - excellent museum and
the 360degree cinema is something else - from their go east to the new Juno
Beach Museum then head west toPort En Bessin - a good museum of relics
including tanks and boats salvaged from the sea - then onto Omaha - there is
an archive museum as well as the musuem on the approach to the beach. No
visit would be complete without a visit the American cemetary above Omaha or
the British one at Bayeux - also do Point du hoc
The above will fill 2 days dawn to dusk - Utah beach and the US dropzones
are a bit further west - you would be pushed to fit them in as well in two
days.
Hope this helps, Nige
Normandy
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From: "42Ford GPW" <ilovejeeps@hotmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 4:39 PM
Subject: [MV] Ideas for stop-over in Paris
> Hello list,
>
> I will be traveling to our two ball bearing plants in Hungary and Poland
> during the second and third
> weeks of October.
>
> On the way back, i have the opportunity to stop over in Paris for a few
> days. My thoughts were to
> get down to Normandy area and view the invasion sights, museums, etc.
this
> would be done to familiarize myself with the area in preparation for D-Day
> 2004 trip.
>
> I would appreciate any ideas, thoughts, places of interest to visit, etc.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike Curtis
>
>
>
> Mike Curtis
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