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Normandy Trip - Arromanches

Our next stop was at Arromanches-les-Bains .   Arromanches is a quaint little town sitting on the banks of the English Channel.  The architecture of the town was amazing and the village was absolutely beautiful. We eventually made it through the narrow streets to arrive at the Arromanches D-Day Museum . Here we took a guided tour of the museum and learned that Arromanches was actually the center of the Normandy D-Day landings and was assigned the code name Gold Beach .  There were a total of five designated beached used on 6 June 1944 and each one was associated with British, American or Canadian military forces. Gold Beach was a British designated beach and units of the British 50th Infantry Division assault the beach and took it from German Troops on D-Day. Since Allied forces were not able to land at any of the other ports due to the German-occupied Europe along the Western European Coast during World War II. As a result, United Kingdom's Prime Minister Wins...