Normandy News - Third Edition

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Honor the Fallen

Trading Post Hours

Planning Your Weekend

Historic Trail

The 11th edition of the

Normandy Camporee

will be held

April 19-21, 2024 in

Normandy, France.

Registration Closes

March 31st 2024!

Registration

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Event Guide (v.1.2)

TAC Program Supply Center

TAC Normandy Passport App

Changing Lives Reception

History Corner

Then and Now: Sainte Mère Église

Honor the Fallen

"Let us never forget"

BSA honors all those who served and died during the Normandy Landings. Although there will not be formal memorial services held on Saturday morning as in past Camporees, please take this time to visit the memorial sites and cemeteries throughout Normandy to honor these fallen soldiers and remember their sacrifices.

Please plan to attend the Memorial Service and Closing Ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial on Sunday, 21 April at 0930

Trading Post Hours at Normandy

Thursday, April 18, 1300-2145

Friday, April 19, 0800-2145

Saturday, April 20, 0800-1530 or 1700-2145

Sunday, April 21, 1100-1300

Location: Salle des Fêtes, 12 Bd de Cauvigny, 14710 Vierville-sur-Mer

Our featured item today - limited stock available!

Collector's Neckerchief - $25

This beautifully embroidered collector neckerchief is the perfect piece to show off your pride in Normandy Camporee. It not only incorporates the logo of the camporee, but also a wonderfully international piping with the flags of the countries involved in the D-Day landings.

Frequently Visited Locations

Arromanches

Bayeux British War Cemetery

Caen Memorial Museum

French Commando Kieffer Memorial

La Cambe German Cemetery

Longues Battery

Normandy American Cemetery

Omaha Beach Historic Trail

Sainte-Mère-Église

Utah Beach Museum

Airborne Museum

America and Gold Beach Museums

Caen Memorial

Castle of Falaise (William the Conquerer)

D-Day Omaha Museum

Maisy Battery

Omaha Beach Memorial Museum Overlord Museum

Pegasus Bridge and Memorial Museum

Pointe du Hoc

Featured

French Commando Kieffer Memorial at Oiustreham

In a beautiful coastside park lies this monument for the No.4 commandos of Lt. Kieffer, who came to shore in the early morning hours of 6 June 1944 to make the batteries of Ouistreham harmless.

The stones in front of the monument bear the names of the French commando's who where killed on June 6, 1944.

La Cambe German Cemetery

The German war dead from the Normandy campaign were scattered over a wide area, many of them buried in isolated or field graves or small battlefield cemeteries. In total there are 21,245 German soldiers commemorated at La Cambe, of which 207 unknown and 89 identified are buried in a kamaradengraben (mass grave) underneath the central man-made hill.

Historic Trail - Omaha Beach

So – you are thinking about doing the Omaha Beach-Normandy Historic Trail. Why should you do it? There are numerous reasons one can think of in justifying doing this historic trail. Although, the most important is to honor the memory of so many great Americans and Allies who sacrificed everything to safeguard our freedom. It is because of the sacrifices that our forefathers made on these battlefields that we are a great nation today.

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