The second museum on our tour is the 'Omaha Beach Memorial Museum, Musée Omaha 6 Juin 1944' at St-Laurent-sur-Mer (see picture below). On show are also uniforms, pictures and weapons. In comparison with other greater museums it gives not that much extra, but it is a sincere museum. A while ago, the museums LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personel) was restored and placed in a sort of window-shop.

The third museum, 'Musée D-Day, Omaha' is to be found in Vierville-sur-Mer, on the way to Pointe-du-Hoc. Here are some nice objects placed outside the museum which are worth a visit. This museum is also responsible for the restoration of a small piece of a Mulberry Harbour that can be found just outside Vierville.

When you leave this sector (DOG) behind you and move upwards, towards Vierville-sur-Mer, you will see some interesting monuments. On the right you see a plaque against the wall which commemorates the heroism of the Rangers (but no mention of the help they got from men of the 116th Regiment, 29th Division). Central on the dividing of the road are two large erected monuments. The first is for the 29th Infantry Division, and another stands some hundred meters behind this, for 6th Engineer Special Brigade.

To the right side of the road stands a distinctive relic. It’s an offloading bridge from a Mulberry harbour. A short distant further, direction of Pointe du Hoc, you’ll find the Chateau de Vierville. This was after the landings the headquarters of the so called ‘Eleventh Port’. They had the command of building the Mulberry ‘A’ harbour just in front of Vierville-sur-Mer, at Exit D-1. They were located here from 8 June untill 21 July, 1944.

As mentioned befor, Mulberry ‘B’ was at Arromanches. On 7 June work was started to construct the artificial harbours. On 18 June they were fully functional. On 19 June, the next day, a severe storm was hitting Normandy for three days. The Mulberry harbour at Vierville-sur-Mer was almost complete destroyed. Useful parts were brought over to Arromanches.

At low tide you can see some fragments of the Mulberry ‘A’ harbour. Also, encapsulated in the shore is an offloading dock as a remnant of the huge harbour

Before you take a right turn onto the D 541 , you can go to the left and move into the suburb of Vierville-sur-Mer. It is worth the search, but if you go somewhere again to the left, than you are on top of the cliff. In the far corner to the left is Wn 71. At a stone throw of each other, are a Tobruk and a personalbunker.

You can walk all the way to the edge of the cliff for a magnifecant view over Omaha Beach. More to the right on this hill, towards St Laurent-sur-Mer, was a temporary airfield situated. Nowadays all traces are gone and it is farmer land once again.

A couple of kilometers out of Vierville, on the D514, there is a small road on the right side of the road. This leads to a cliff called Pointe de Raz de la Percée. Halfway this road, there is on the left a marker as a remembrance for one of the first temporarily airstrips, Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) A1. From this field operated the 366th Fighter Group (more on the construction of an ALG, click; HERE). At the end of the road is barely room to park a car, but with some improvisation you will manage it. From this spot runs a small hiking path to the right (eastwards) to a former German radar post. Unfortunately, the path is in a bad state and you will need a machete, because the path ends in a small bush.

Just before you enter this bush, you notice a 'tobruk' bunker on the right. Halfway in the bush to the right you can see, in the field, a last remnant of a Würtzburg radar. Because of the overgrowth there is little left to be found of this old German Kriegsmarine side. This hike is only worth to them who wants to visit every aspect of Omaha Beach.