My Dad served on a landing craft at Omaha on D-Day, so I always wanted to visit and just did with my brother. We started at Sword - nothing to see really besides a sword monument on the side of the road. We did not go to Pegasus Bridge or the nearby museum. For this location research what you want to see there - for us we just walked the beach for a moment and left.
Juno was very worthwhile. Gold has a beautiful monument just completed in 2019. Next was Arromanches where the mulberries were built by the British, lots to see there including the gorgeous coastal town.
Next were the coastal batteries of the Atlantic Wall at Longues-sur-Mer, worth the time spent. Then on to the American Cemetery, a can't miss obviously. We went back for the 4PM lowering of the flags. Then to Omaha Beach - not a whole lot to see, a small commercial area with a few monuments. But like Sword, we walked the beach and tried to visualize the scale of the assault on the beach where there were more casualties than all others combined.
The biggest disappointment was Pointe-du-Hoc. You can walk around a distance from the cliffs buy due to erosion can't get close. I think it best to figure a way to access via the beach, then you can look up to where the Rangers achieved their great feats. Utah was similar to Juno - many things to see including a Higgins boat.
The last stop was Sainte-Mere-Eglise, a location focused on paratroopers. Nice little town, you can visit the Church where one of the first paratroopers got hung up on the steeple. There is a great museum there, just added to recently, highly recommend.
The one other museum we went to was the Caen Memorial Museum, also highly recommended. Just be aware that it is more of a WWII museum than D-Day, tracing the history of the war back to the end of WWI. There are many other museums in the area that would require some research here and other places to gauge worthiness.
One last mention - there is a National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, VA. Kind of in the boonies between Lynchburg and Roanoke but if you find yourself in that part of the country (not far from I-81) it's a worthwhile side trip. See it on a free tour - the guides are really good. Some nice exhibits, and they will soon have a Higgins boat of their own.
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