Jim DeFelice: D-Day beach’s only monument is to these men who offered hope on a deadly day
June 05, 2019 at 14:24 PM EDT
The beaches in Normandy, particularly those in the area of Colleville-sur-Mer, were barricaded with steel traps, mines, barbed wire; gun emplacements and bunkers lined the ridges above them, machine gun nests covered very inch of sand.