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Displays in the D-Day Museum.
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tradition that on the third
Friday of every month,
grandparents, parents and
children sat under The
Apple Tree to celebrate and
embrace Jewish family life.
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une 6, 1944, an important
date for Jews and all liberty-
loving people. It's the date
that marked the beginning
of the end of World War II. It was
the date that heroic American,
English and Canadian troops
crossed the English Channel in
the dark of night and landed on
Nazi-held, Nazi-fortified beach-
es of Normandy in northwestern
France.
D-Day is an important date in
world history, and this history is
kept alive, meaningful and cur-
rent by the French.
I recently spent four days tour-
ing Normandy, and I highly rec-
ommend it if you are interested in
personally experiencing the im-
pressive, spine-chilling drama of
this important page in world his-
tory.
If you visit Normandy, you will
see 40 miles of beaches where the
Allied troops landed. You will see
the massive relics of landing
barges and huge platforms that
remain to this day in the
windswept water. Memorials to
specific fighting units dot the land-
scape. High lookouts offer tele-
scopes to see better and absorb
more of the day the largest arma-
da in world history crossed the
English Channel. After the cross-
ing, the camouflaged fighting force
stormed ashore and defeated the
weaponry and fortifications the
Nazi war machine had en-
trenched over a three-year peri-
od. You will see actual films of the
Nazis as they wait behind their
guns as the Allied forces come
ashore.
You will see the Utah and Om-
aha beaches, which were the land-
ing sites of the First U.S. Army.
The Anglo-Canadian troops went
ashore on Gold, Juno and Sword
beaches.
A total of 120,000 men and
20,000 vehicles under the com-
mand of General Dwight Eisen-
hower landed on the five beaches.
In addition to seeing the battle
sites, you can visit the D-Day
museum in a town called Arro-
maches. The museum does an ex-
cellent job of explaining and
portraying graphically and in
great detail the first attacks and
the battle that lasted until Aug.
21, 1944.
Displays in the huge museum
show life-size equipment (tanks,
guns, planes, landing barges). Also
exhibited are a wide variety of uni-
forms and a large chart that de-
tails the commanding forces
organization of Operation Over-
lord. Films and audio-visual pre-
sentations show actual battle
scenes graphically and powerful-
ly.
Another museum, about an
hour's drive from the beaches, is
called the Peace Museum. This
massive building in Caen includes
D-Day information and films of
both Allied and German troops in
action. In addition, the Peace Mu-
seum has a sobering Holocaust
exhibit.