La Madeleine, Manche

La Madeleine is a hamlet of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont village in North-western France which was one anchor point of the Utah Beach landings[1] on the D-Day invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europa, 6 June 1944. Geographically, the village was the edge of the allied right flank along the left bank of the river Douve estuary.

On La Madeleine beach stands a museum dedicated to the Utah Beach landing.

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