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Sainte-Marie-du-Mont: Landing Museum
Sainte-Marie-du-Mont: Landing Museum Landing Museum (also known as Utah Beach Museum), Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, France.

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Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, town, Normandy région, on the Cotentin peninsula of northwestern France. It is situated 6 miles (10 km) north of Carentan and some 3 miles (5 km) inland of La Madeleine, an area of sand dunes on the English Channel coast. At the southernmost end of Utah Beach, La Madeleine was one of the first areas to be assaulted by seaborne forces on D-Day (June 6, 1944) during the Normandy Invasion of World War II. Saint-Marie-du-Mont lies at the end of a long causeway linking the beach to higher ground and was therefore a principal objective of paratroopers of the ...(100 of 158 words)

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