Normandy

After Disneyland, we spent 3 nights in Normandy touring a WW2 museum in Caen and some dday sights on Juno beach and close to Utah beach (one of the beaches the Americans landed).

These massive German guns were located at Longues-sur-Mer and they were named the Longues-sur-Mer battery and were shooting at Omaha and Gold beach.

A British ship hit the gun in a critical spot, blowing it up.

You can see the bits of the barrel scattered around the area.

These 2 guns were at Juno beach (Canadian invasion beach) and were not destroyed just disabled.

As you can see, the top one has wheels so it could be moved around but the bottom one was stuck in place and looked to be a more machine gun while the top one looks like it has a bigger barrel and would have bigger ammo

(All these were inferences)

We explored around Juno beach and it looked like it was a nice place for swimming now.

After walking around a bit we went into a Canadian memorial museum. There was a game where you had to look around and answer questions if you got them all correct you would earn a certain amount of points, that number was the number of Canadians buried away from their home I forget the exact number but it was 50 000 plus I am pretty sure.

-Thomas