We got up early to take an Uber to the train stations for an early mooring to Bayeux to meet our guide who would take us to Omaha Beach.
As we were early, we shopped around the quaint shops of the
main area and they met our guide and 4 others who were going with us.
Our guide was a recent French Air Force veteran and was very
knowledgeable about World War II.
To see and hear about the landing zone operation and hearing about the waves of all the solders to took this beach on June 6 was very emotional. the morning of the invasion, which was low tide, the each stretched 400 yards out from the cliffs and the sand was very, very hard so that the vehicles would be able to drive on the beach.
The problem was they were sitting ducks while trying to come
ashore in the first and second wave of thousands of soldiers.
Huge number of troops were killed until the third wave and
they had enough troops on the beach to start the taking of the country.
We then drove back to Bayeux and ate a lovely dinner. then we took the train back to Paris arriving at 11:00pm.
We took an Uber back to the hotel and went to sleep at about
midnight.
Tomorrow is our last day and we have a food tour.
When Barb chose Paris, we wanted to do three things.
One, see the Cathedral, Two was go to Normandy and three was to taste the food
of Paris.
The last item on our list, the The food tour, we will do
tomorrow.
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