Hundreds of people, some dressed in World War II uniforms, gathered before dawn on Utah Beach. The now quiet Norman beach occupies one of the five areas where the landing of the Allied troops took place on the famous “D-Day”, in which thousands of soldiers entered the cold French waters, under a ‘hell of enemy fire’, exactly 80 years ago.
Hundreds of people, some dressed in uniforms of the Second World War, met before dawn on Utah Beach. The now quiet Norman Beach occupies one of the five areas where the landing of the allied troops on the famous ‘D-Day’in which thousands of soldiers entered the cold French waters, under a ‘hell of enemy fire’, exactly 80 years ago.
Excited, dozens of citizens watched as the US Navy Seal recreated the landing of the 2nd Naval Beach Battalion alongside the descendants of some of the soldiers who landed on that beach on June 6, 1944.
