Normandy 1944
Sword Beach — Ouistreham
D-Day · Beach · British 3rd Division & Commandos
GuideNormandy 1944
AreaCaen, Sword & the British airborne
TypeD-Day · Beach · British 3rd Division & Commandos
Time to allow1 h
LocationExact spot known
GPS49.28570, -0.25530
The story
Lord Lovat's commandos landed here with a piper playing and marched to relieve Pegasus Bridge by early afternoon. The Grand Bunker — the German fire-control tower — is now a museum.
What to look for
Grand Bunker museum and the Kieffer commando memorial.
Nearby sites
- Hillman fortress — Colleville-Montgomery · 5 km
- Merville Battery · 5 km
- Pegasus Bridge / Memorial Pegasus · 5 km
- Ranville War Cemetery · 6 km
- Caen Memorial Museum · 14 km
- Bény-sur-Mer Canadian Cemetery · 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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