Pointe du Hoc is a promontory with a cliff overlooking the English Channel, lying 4 miles west of the center of Omaha Beach, and was the location of a series of German bunkers and machine gun posts. It was captured by the U.S. Army Provisional Ranger Group on D-Day.

Omaha Beach is one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944. We visited the Les Braves memorial and left white roses at its base. The beauty and serenity of the beach belies what happened here almost 80 years ago.