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10/14/2026

The Mulberry Harbours — two artificial ports, built in Britain, towed across the Channel, and assembled off the Normandy beaches after D-Day. Mulberry A at Omaha was wrecked by the great storm of June 19–22, 1944. Mulberry B — Port Winston — at Arromanches kept working for ten months. The Phoenix caissons are still there today.

10/13/2026

Utah Beach — June 6, 1944. The westernmost of the five D-Day beaches, where the 4th Infantry Division came ashore and pushed inland through the flooded fields and dunes of the Cotentin.

Today it’s quiet. The sand is the same. The monuments stand where the fighting was.

We walk where they walked. We remember what they did.

10/13/2026

10/13/2026

Ordinary men. Extraordinary courage.

10/12/2026

Normandy Archives
Archive No. 17

A Family During the Occupation

At first glance, this photograph appears to capture an ordinary family gathering. But it was taken in Paris in 1943, while France was living under German occupation.

Alexandre and Simone Renaud are pictured with their three young sons—Paul, Henri Jean and baby Maurice—along with their nanny, Marguerite, and members of the Rostand family, longtime friends who played an important role in the Renauds' lives.

The youngest Renaud son, Maurice, had been named after Maurice Rostand, pictured at right.

For the Renaud children, growing up during the Occupation meant that war was part of everyday life. German troops controlled their country and had occupied their hometown of Sainte-Mère-Église.

Yet this photograph preserves something the war could not erase—a family together, carrying on with life during extraordinarily uncertain times.

Within a year, everything around them would change.

American paratroopers were coming to Normandy.

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Normandy Archives is presented by the World War II Heroes Foundation in collaboration with Walk Among Heroes.

10/12/2026

Sainte-Mere-Eglise in Normandy, France. 1944 vs today.

10/11/2026

What type of courage must have been required to take that next step?

10/11/2026

Pegasus Bridge, Bénouville. In the first minutes of D-Day — just after midnight on June 6, 1944 — British glider troops of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry landed within yards of this bridge and took it in minutes. It was the first battle of D-Day, and holding these crossings kept German armor from reaching the beaches.

Eighty-two years later, the bridge still stands — and the café beside it does too.

10/10/2026

Pointe du Hoc, Normandy. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, the 2nd Ranger Battalion scaled these 100-foot cliffs under fire to silence the German guns threatening the landings below. They did it with ropes, ladders, and raw courage.

Eighty-two years later, the cliffs still bear the scars — and the monument still stands watch over them.

10/10/2026

Can you name the young lady in this picture?