A walk on the beach at the location of Le Poulier will surprise you with a fallen bunker of the Atlantic Wall built built by the Nazis to prevent any invasion in Europe.
Credit to @francesco_frakkio_raineri
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Musée du 5 juin 1944
Musée du 5 juin 1944 , 4 bis Av. de la Marne, 59200 Tourcoing
On 5th of June 1944 at 21.15pm, a German officer intercept a signal with a English poem which was the code for the Allied invasion's in Europe. He reported back but nobody took him seriously. From 01.20am until 18.30pm Germans in Normandy were sending continuous requests to this small
Vimy ridge
Route départementale 55, Chemin des Canadiens, 62580 Givenchy-en-Gohelle
It was the first time all four Canadian divisions participated in a battle and managed to succeed taking Vimy ridge from German forces during WWI. Around the Canadian Memorial you will see many craters from the devastating bombardment. Follow the signs down the road to visit the well preserved
St. Paul de Vence
St Paul de Vence
The Allies designed an operation to land in South of France at the same as the invasion in Normandy. That didn't went according to plan and "Operation Dragoon" took place on the 14th of August. American and Canadian troops landed close to Saint-Tropez and quickly overrun the German resistance