Former D-day Landing Press Centre Bernières-sur-Mer
A group of Canadian journalists (including Marcel Ouimet and Matthew Halton), war photographers and filmmakers settled in this former Belle-Plage hotel at 10.30am on 6 June 1944. They had landed on June Beach shortly after the first waves of landings and were reporting on the landings from this location.
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- Text: TracesOfWar
- Photos: Patrick van der Kieft
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Point of interest
- Canada House - Maison des Canadiens - Bernieres-sur-Mer
- Château de Sémilly - Bernières-sur-Mer
- Temporary Cemetery Bernieres-sur-Mer - Bernieres-sur-Mer
Monument
- Memorial Inukshuk - Bernieres-Sur-Mer
- Monument June 6th 1944 - Bernières-sur-Mer
- Memorial North Nova Scotta Highlanders Regiment - Bernières-sur-Mer
Cemetery
- Canadian War Cemetery Beny-sur-mer - Reviers
- Commonwealth War Graves Luc-sur-Mer - Luc-sur-Mer
- Commonwealth War Grave Douvres-la-Délivrande - Douvres-la-Délivrande
Fortification
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