Normandy 1944
Ranville War Cemetery
D-Day · Cemetery · British 6th Airborne
GuideNormandy 1944
AreaCaen, Sword & the British airborne
TypeD-Day · Cemetery · British 6th Airborne
Time to allow40 min
LocationExact spot known
GPS49.23250, -0.25850
The story
2,236 graves, mostly of the airborne division, beside the first village liberated by the British.
What to look for
Next to Ranville church; free.
Nearby sites
- Pegasus Bridge / Memorial Pegasus · 2 km
- Hillman fortress — Colleville-Montgomery · 5 km
- Sword Beach — Ouistreham · 6 km
- Merville Battery · 6 km
- Caen Memorial Museum · 10 km
- D-Day Wings Museum · 15 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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