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  • WN60 (June 6, 1944)(Photos taken this week)

    06/06/2013 8:31:40 AM PDT · by servo1969 · 2 replies
    blackfive.net ^ | 6-6-2013 | Laughing_Wolf
    I'm camping at Colleville-sur-Mer, which should be a familiar name to those of you who are familiar with D-Day. Not only do I have a quick walk to the beach, but that walk happens to take me straight into the area of some of the hardest fighting that day. The eastern-most thrust on Omaha walked into a meat grinder, and one part of that grinder was a German position known to them as WN60. WN60 is on a high bluff to the east of where the eastern push by the Big Red One attemped to move up the draw towards...