Gold Beach

Ver-sur-Mer, FR

The British landing zone between Arromanches and La Rivière on June 6, 1944, where the **50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division** overcame stiff German resistance in the small coastal town of Le Hamel. By evening the division had advanced 10 km inland; Bayeux — the first French city liberated after D-Day — fell the following morning without damage.