Normandy 1944
Normandy American Cemetery
Cemetery
The story
Colleville-sur-Mer turns the battlefield into individual loss; its position above Omaha makes geography and remembrance inseparable.
What to look for
Allow the full time. Move beyond the central axis, read markers, then look back to the sea.
Plan your visit
Best 09:00–10:30 or the late-afternoon flag ceremony.
- Open
- Daily 09:00–17:00; last entry 16:30; closed 25 Dec and 1 Jan
- Price
- Free
- Access
- Free wheelchair on request, subject to availability
Checked September 2026 from official sources: bayeux-bessin-tourisme.com. Things change, so check before you travel.
Nearby sites
- Omaha Beach — central sector · 2 km
- Omaha Beach — Dog Green / Vierville · 4 km
- Pointe du Hoc · 10 km
- Longues-sur-Mer German Battery · 12 km
- German Military Cemetery, La Cambe · 12 km
- Bayeux — Museum of the Battle of Normandy · 14 km
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Easy Company: Normandy
A free field guide for your phone: the route, the maps and the stories built in, even with no signal. The places of the Normandy campaign of June–July 1944, following Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry, 101st Airborne, from the night drop and Brécourt Manor to Utah Beach and Carentan, with Omaha, Pointe du Hoc, the British and Canadian beaches and the best museums along the way.
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