With every passing year, there are fewer and fewer veterans alive who landed on June 6, 1944 on Canada's Juno Beach, Britain's Sword and Gold Beaches, and America's Omaha and Utah Beaches in the desperate effort to gain a foothold and begin liberating Occupied Europe.
But we can still pay tribute to the power of people and nations banding together to achieve a noble goal.
HELP THE LANDING BEACHES ACHIEVE UNESCO STATUS
The initiative to list Normandy’s D-Day Landing Beaches as a UNESCO World Heritage Site aims to preserve the Beaches and the stories of the people who fought for freedom and shared values of humanity.
You can join tens of thousands of people who have signed the petition at
normandiepourlapaix.fr/en/liberte-jinscris-ton-nom
The online form asks (in French) for you to add your
- First Name
- Last Name
- Country
- Age
- City
- Check that ‘you’re not a robot’, then
- Click the ‘Valider’ blue button
to register your support.
VISIT THE D-DAY LANDING BEACHES
The Landing Beaches in Normandy, France are an essential travel destination to honor, first-hand, the monumental task and tremendous sacrifices of D-Day, and walk in the very footsteps of the soldiers who landed there.
The Landing Beaches are easy to reach for any traveler to Northern Europe. Ask your travel advisor to help you find the perfect pilgrimage Here are some of the options that take you to American Landing Beaches and Canada's Juno Beach Centre.
Independent travelers can take rental car, private tour or train (especially if you get a rail pass) and public transportation from all major Northern European cities including Paris, London, Amsterdam and more.
Or you can join a land tour, shore excursion from a river cruise, or even from an ocean cruise calling in a northern French port.
- Globus, Collette, Trafalgar and Insight Vacations land tours include the Landing Beaches as part of general-interest tours of France or Northern Europe, as well as war memorial or battlefields tours of the region;
- Avalon Waterways, AmaWaterways and Uniworld Seine River cruises from Paris offer shore excursions to the Landing Beaches; and
- Oceania Cruises and Princess Cruises calling in Le Havre offer shore excursions including American and Canadian Landing Beaches.
We often look for meaningful acts of Remembrance. Supporting the UNESCO listing of the D-Day Landing Beaches, and making a once-in-a-lifetime trip to our Landing Beaches in Normandy help keep the history of D-Day alive for us all.
