Tag: D-Day
D-Day Turns 75: Five Threads Leading from the Beaches of Normandy
Beyond the numerous commemorative ceremonies that accompany the 75th anniversary of D-Day and of the liberation of villages and towns over the ensuing ten weeks, here are five telling ways in which organizations and businesses are using, (re)interpreting or inspired by Normandy’s wartime memory in 2019.
D-Day Revisited: The Airborne Museum’s Disturbing Glorification of Ronald Reagan
Two films are shown at the Airborne Museum in Sainte Mere Eglise, Normandy. One of them is among the better introductory films to a visit to the Landing Zone. The other, a film glorifying Ronald Reagan, is undoubtedly the worst. An editorial explaining why the latter should be taken down.
Beyond D-Day: Falaise, Normandy Examines the Fate of Civilians in Wartime
Of the 20,000 Normans who died as a direct result of WWII, the majority were killed by Allied bombardments. The effect of war on civilian populations is now the subject of a museum in Falaise, birthplace of William the Conqueror and site, with its surroundings, of the final combat of the Battle of Normandy 1944.
D-Day and American War Memories in France: A Travel Conversation
June 6, 2015—On the eve of the 71st anniversary of the D-Day landing in Normandy, Dan Schlossberg of Travel Itch Radio invited France Revisited's editor Gary Lee Kraut on the show to discuss D-Day and other American War Memories in France.
Editor Takes France Revisited On the Road in the U.S.
The editor's winter Jan.-Feb. 2014 East Coast U.S. lecture tour including talks on war touring, wine touring and "patrimoine" in France.
Sea views from the Grand Hotel de Cabourg, Normandy
Normandy's Flowered coast has much to offer in terms of fine hotels and recommendable restaurants. But the fit traveler also needs some exercise, the occasion for some expansive sea views.
The Sweet Taste of D-Day
From Pegasus Bridge to Utah Beach, the Landing Zone of Normandy is prime territory for D-Day merchandising, but I’d imagine that very little, if any, of it is actually made in Normandy. So I was a bit wary when saw a jar of “D-Day Honey” for sale this summer at Bernard Lebrec’s apple farm between Pointe du Hoc and the American Cemetery.
War Stories: Dawn in the Normandy Landing Zone
I was worken by the rain at 6:30 a.m.. Except that it wasn't the raind; it was water drizzling into the room from the ceiling. In a moment of verteran-like panic I had a flashback to one year ago when...
D-Day Revisited: Ian Patrick’s “Anonymous Heroes”
On the anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944, France Revisited honors veterans and the fallen through the work of American photographer Ian Patrick.