Normandy 1944
Richard D. Winters Leadership Monument
Memorial
GuideNormandy 1944
AreaUtah Beach & the drop zones
TypeMemorial
Time to allow20 min
LocationExact spot known
GPS49.39151, -1.21349
The story
Winters stands for the junior officers who led on D-Day. Not a combat position, but its placement on the road to Utah makes it an effective pause before Brécourt.
What to look for
Look past the statue to the flat farmland and hedges: visibility could collapse within metres in the bocage.
Nearby sites
- Brécourt Manor battery area · under 1 km
- Easy Company / 506th Brécourt Memorial · under 1 km
- 2nd Battalion 506th CP — Le Grand Chemin · under 1 km
- Sainte-Marie-du-Mont · 2 km
- Utah Beach Landing Museum · 4 km
- Utah Beach · 4 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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