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Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Normandy

March 2017

Sainte-Marie-du-Mont lies about 9km north of Carentan.
We stopped here for a coffee on our way to Utah beach.

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Rue du General Eisenhower. This view is looking south towards the village centre.

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The centre of the village. It was very quite when we were there.

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The village information board. The map on the left shows that the church lies at the centre of the village almost like on a large roundabout.

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The village is best known for being the scene of a military engagement between the American 101st Airborne Division and the German Wehrmacht on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The village war memorial to commemorate the fallen of WW1, WW2 and the war in Indochina. The pink stone in the foreground is a Liberty Road km marker. La Voie de la Liberté is the commemorative way marking the route of the Allied forces from D-Day in June 1944. It starts in Sainte-Mère-Église and travels across Northern France to Metz and then northwards to end in Bastogne, on the border of Luxembourg and Belgium. At each of the 1,146 kilometres, there is a stone marker or 'Borne'.

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Another view of the war memorial. On the right is the town hall or Hotel de ville.

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The coffee shop that we visited. The shop also sold memorabilia from WW2.

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Eglise Notre-Dame de Sainte-Marie-du-Mont.