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• National D-Day Memorial Foundation
  http://www.dday.org/
  BEDFORD Va (USA) - The National D-Day Memorial Foundation is a group of veterans and volunteers organized as a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation and warranted by the Congress to build and maintain a memorial to Allied Forces who invaded the Normandy coast of France on June 6, 1944. The Foundation hopes to dedicate the completed Memorial Complex, including the Overlord monument and plaza, Education Center, and amphitheater on June 6, 2001.

• National D-Day Museum
  http://www.ddaymuseum.org/
  NEW ORLEANS (USA) - Opened June 6th, 2000. The National D-Day Museum celebrates the American Spirit, the teamwork,optimism, courage and sacrifice of the men and women who won World War II and promotes the exploration and expression of these values by future generations.
  
  
• Memorial de Caen (Normandy)
  http://www.memorial.fr/indexgb.shtml
  CAEN (FRANCE) - 20th Century history museum includes exhibits on D-Day, Battle of Normandy, World War II, peace, and human rights.
  
  
• 29th and 35th Division Memorial and Major Howie Memorial
  SAINT-LO (Normandy - France) - "Le Memorial de la Madeleine" and the Major Howie Memorial remember the U.S. Divisions that liberated Saint-Lo in 1944.
  
  
• WWII and D-Day memorials, cemeteries, sites or museums in Normandy.
  Normandy (France) - List of the main battle of Normandy sites.
  
  
• WWII cemeteries.
  http://www.abmc.gov/abmc45.htm
  AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION. Of the 405,399 Americans that lost their lives during World War II, there were 78,976 Missing in Action. Of the remainderthe next of kin of 93,242 elected to have their loved ones buried at our cemeteries.
  
  
• WWII commemorative monuments.
  http://perso.wanadoo.fr/normandy44-90div.us/usa/3-utah-ww2.htm
  Many Monuments, Steles and Plaques can be found in memory of World War II Veterans.
  
  
• Washington State WWII Memorial.
  http://www.wa.gov/dva/wwii/ww2.htm
  OLYMPIA, Wa - The Memorial honors all of those from Washington state who played a role in the war effort, with special acknowledgement to those who gave their lives.

• In desperate Battle : Normandy 1944. The valour and the horror
  http://www.valourandhorror.com/DB/home.htm
  CANADIAN site. Nice paintings, pictures and posters about D-Day and WWII. See the specification and technical data : what fearsome engines of destruction thundered in battle. From D-Day on June 6 to the defeat of the German Army in the Normandy in the last days of August 1944, you can follow the events day by day...
  
  
• Omaha Beach.
  http://normandy.eb.com/normandy/week2/Omaha_Beach.html
  "Omaha" was the code name for the second beach from the right of the five landing areas of the Normandy Invasion.
  
  
• Pictures of Normandy DDay sites.
  http://www.trausch.fr/pageone.htm
  Five special pages made in order to honour all veterans who came to France in 1944.
  
  
• Overlord - The Normandy Landings.
  http://worldatwar.net/article/overlord/
  A chronology of events.
  
  
• The D-Day story.
  http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/brochures/normandy/nor-pam.htm
  D-Day and the Normandy Invasion step by step : complete story.
  
  
• Field Marshal Montgomery and D-Day.
  http://members.home.net/htelford/monty/dday.htm
  On 23rd December 1943, Monty was ordered back to England to take command of the 21st Army Group and make it ready for the invasion of Europe.
  
  
• Pictures of D-Day and the France Liberation.
  http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm#dday
  
  
• The 29th Division Historical Association.
  http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bunker/2629/
  The Web Site of the 29th Historical Association, a UK research organization of the WW2 US 29th Infantry Division.

• The 29th "Blue and Gray" Division French Historical Association.
  http://members.tripod.com/fha29/
  This site is respectfully dedicated to those special men of the 29th Division who gave their youth, their future, their everything so we could live in freedom. The 29th French Historical Association proudly supports the "SAINT-LÔ 44-Roanoke" Association.
  

• History of the 50th Fighter Group.
  http://community-2.webtv.net/XY-MyOtherSelf/HahnsFlyBoys/
  On D-Day the 50th Fighter Group maintained a continuous cross Channel shuttle service in support of the allied troops fighting their way off the beaches; combined the pilots flew over 1,000 sorties.

By P. Fize - Roanoke.com
September 06, 2000