Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword beaches This map from UPI shows the 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coastline ... control of the defense of the Atlantic Wall in late 1943. However, he was ...

Biden was speaking at the US Ranger Monument at Pointe du Hoc in northern France on the last day of events marking 80 years since the Allies stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944.

In Normandy, Rommel notices the incomplete state of the defensive fortifications, the slow pace of constructing the Atlantic Wall, and the lack of preparedness of the defending units mostly ...