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2016

Embarking for France

Church at St. Mère Église

Flags representing the Allied nations outside the Airborne Museum at St. Mère Église

Airborne Museum at St. Mère Église

Hangar exhibition space at the Airborne Museum at St. Mère Église

Inside the Airborne Museum at St. Mère Église

Residual Allied pride in a storefront in St. Mère Église

The Merderet River at La Fière Bridge

Jeffrey Romeu gives a briefing at La Fière Bridge

Statue of John "Red Dog" Dolan at La Fière Bridge

Sword memorial at Pointe du Hoc, where the 2nd Ranger Battalion landed and scaled cliffs.

View towards Omaha Beach from Pointe du Hoc

Megan Maggi at Pointe du Hoc

Mulberry artificial harbor on Gold Beach at Arromanches

Raveena Ugale on Gold Beach near the Mulberry artificial harbors

Mulberry artificial harbor on Gold Beach at Arromanches

Students on Gold Beach near the Mulberry harbors

Ben Kershner on Gold Beach near the Mulberry artificial harbors

Gold Beach

Sea shell on Gold Beach

Professor Long discussing the British landings at Sword and Gold Beaches

Cross of Lorraine memorial honoring the Free French forces at Juno Beach

Logan Davis at the Cross of Lorraine memorial at Juno Beach

German battery at Azeville

Students listening to a briefing on Allied naval bombardment and the German use of camouflage at the Azeville Battery

Edward Rickford inside the Azeville battery lookout

J.R. Goetz inside the Azeville battery lookout

Hillman Bunker inland from Sword Beach

Hillman Bunker inland from Sword Beach

Aly Kruse giving a briefing outside Hillman Bunker

The class receives a tour of Hillman Bunker

Steps into Hillman Bunker

Students enjoying a brief break at Hillman Bunker

Raveena Ugale giving a briefing on Operation Cobra

Students listening to a briefing about bocage fields

Megan Maggi giving a briefing on German tank ace Michael Wittman and the German counterattack against the British effort to take Caen

Megan Maggi giving a briefing on German tank ace Michael Wittman and the German counterattack agains the British effort to take Caen

Burial mound at the German cemetery at La Cambe

British War Cemetery at Ranville

The class listening to a briefing about the landings on the Dog Green sector of Omaha Beach and General Norman Cota

Teaching Assistant Andrea Marshall with a message for her soldier in the sand on the Dog Green sector of Omaha Beach, where he died

Message in sand on the Dog Green sector of Omaha Beach

1st Infantry Division memorial at Les Moulins Draw on Omaha Beach

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