Memorial Brécourt Manor Assault in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont

You're standing at Brécourt Manor, an estate just north of the village of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont in Normandy. On the morning of 6 June 1944, D-Day, four German guns stood in these fields. They were firing on one of the exits from Utah Beach, about five kilometres to the northeast. That's exactly where American troops were coming ashore at that very moment.