Omaha Beach, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer

Omaha Beach is a 6-kilometer stretch of Normandy coastline where American forces landed on June 6, 1944, during the largest seaborne invasion in history. The beach witnessed the bloodiest fighting of all five D-Day sectors, with approximately 2,400 casualties as troops from the 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions faced heavily fortified German positions on 30-meter bluffs. Today the beach remains a public shore with several memorials including Les Braves, a striking steel sculpture unveiled in 2004, and the Liberation Monument shaped like a ship's prow.