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Normandy by Car

ALale76 ·18 photographs ·2 Sep 2008 – 10 Sep 2008 ·9 days
Where
Normandy · Normandia
When
2 Sep 2008 – 10 Sep 2008
9 days · trip of 2008
Who
Alessandro Girotti · @ale76 · Caprarola
How
Travel diary
The story

It was a really wonderful experience. We left from Rome by car with a first stop in Paris and then on to Normandy! My girlfriend and I set off without booking anything and without knowing where we'd end up, but it was truly worth it. Go, you won't regret it.

The journey's photographs

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German bunkerAmerican landing craft used in the film saving private ryanGray metal hull marked PA30-31, military trailer displayed outdoorssome military vehicles you can see outside the bunkersome of the rooms perfectly reconstructed inside the bunkerMannequin of a Red Cross medic among oxygen tanks in a museum bunker infirmarySoldier mannequin with helmet and gas mask, machine gun and telephone, inside a bunkersome tanks you can find along the road to D-DAYGreen Churchill tank displayed on a plinth among rocks and wildflowersin the distance some platforms the Americans used to land military vehiclesone of the barges used for the landingone of the four German defence cannons and below we see them from afarConcrete bunkers in a green field beside a country roadConcrete bunker with French sign 'encuvement pour projecteur', natural daylightlookout bunker from here they commanded the cannonsinterior of the bunker as you can see and facing the seaAmerican cemeteryRows of white crosses at the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy

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