Steven Spielberg's 'Saving Private Ryan' featured this Area. Locations of gun positions, batteries, pill boxes and a range of defences such as anti tank trenches and underwater obstacles were plotted from aerial reconnaissance, onto a standard map showing towns, roads and contours.Ĭovering Omaha Beach Sectors, Charlie, Dog, Easy and Fox and the towns of Vierville-sur-Mer, les Moulins and Colleville-sur-Mer.
This, fascinating, piece of history, dated 19 May, 1944, was produced, in the run up to D-Day, by the Allies, as they planned Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy. This Historical document, looks fantastic on your iPad, iPhone or iPod.
