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D-Day tour, one of the German gun emplacements
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D-Day tour, the breech end of the gun
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D-Day tour, looking down Omaha beach
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D-Day tour, the slope looks low and gradual, but it is taller than it seems, and the small rise in the foreground makes it look easier to climb.
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D-Day tour, the block sticking up on the left marks a bunker
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D-Day tour, some more defensive works
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D-Day tour, the American cemetery near the beaches. All the graves face the sea, intending to look toward America, but the beach actually faces north.
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D-Day tour, the grave of Teddy Roosevelt Jr., dead from a heart attack shortly after D-Day
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D-Day tour, Quentin Roosevelt, Teddy's brother, killed in the First World War, and re-buried next to Teddy
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D-Day tour, another German gun. The screen is not original, but is meant to keep vandals out
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D-Day tour, further along Omaha beach, with a much steeper bluff
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D-Day tour, German blockhouse turned into a monument to the National Guard
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D-Day tour, looking down Omaha beach
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D-Day tour, part of a Mulberry harbor, a portable dock set up after the landings to offload supplies
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D-Day tour, shell hole at Pointe du Hoc
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D-Day tour, Pointe du Hoc, pretty barren, and full of craters
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D-Day tour, another crater, pretty deep
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D-Day tour, some of the bunkers at Pointe du Hoc
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D-Day tour, base for a gun
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D-Day tour, looking down where the Rangers climbed up
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D-Day tour, Ste. Mere Eglise, with the memorial to Private John Steele, trapped and wounded when his parachute caught on the church tower.
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D-Day tour, Utah beach, much lower "bluff" and easier to climb
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D-Day tour, the tide is mostly out here
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D-Day tour, monument to 2 airborne medics who cared for their own wounded and civilians in the church of Angoville au Plain
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D-Day tour, a commemorative window in the church