Talk:Arromanches-les-Bains

Hotels
Text removed from D-Day beaches:

Hotels in Arromanches-les-Bains

Hotel DE LA MARINE Hotel VICTORIA Hotel LE CHANTECLAIR Hotel LA ROSIERE

Too much here?
Arromanches-les-Bains currently has things about other beaches. Good stuff, but not about things to see in A-les-B. I think it should at least be moved to "go next" and probably better to D-Day beaches with only links here.

Other opinions? Pashley (talk) 01:29, 10 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Agreed. --Comment by Selfie City  ( talk  |  contributions ) 17:01, 10 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Also agreed.--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 16:28, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Added something under "Go next" about visiting the other beaches & (finally) deleted them under "See'. Preserving text below. Does some of this need to be merged into D-Day beaches? Pashley (talk) 10:12, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * was at Courseulles-sur-Mer, 10 km east of Gold, and the landings here were by mainly Canadian forces. The Juno Beach Visitor Centre by the marina is open Feb-Dec daily 10:00-17:00, adult €7.50. Forces at Gold and Juno were able to link up on D-Day as planned, but linking all the other beachheads took several days more.
 * See Ouistreham for Sword Beach, the most easterly of the five. Here British forces got established fairly quickly and next day linked with the Canadians at Juno. They advanced on nearby Caen but it took a month to fall, and this was a serious check to the whole campaign.
 * was one of several shore guns that were heavily fortified and had a wide arc of fire, so on D-Day they did great damage with enfilade fire along Gold Beach until taken out.
 * , assaulted by US forces, centred on the village of Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer 20 km west of Arromanches. It was fiercely defended from clifftop positions and here the landings came closest to being beaten off. But they prevailed and next day began constructing the second Mulberry harbour. A few days later an exceptional storm damaged it, and the decision was taken to abandon it and route supplies through the Arromanches Mulberry. All the German defences at Omaha were concentrated on the beach itself, so having got ashore the US troops could have rolled inland, but their prime objective was to create a link between Gold to the east and Utah to the west. Saint-Laurent has a museum, a US cemetery and accommodation.
 * See Sainte-Mère-Église for Utah Beach, the most westerly of the five. Here US forces gained a beachhead on the Cotentin peninsula, in order to cut off Cherbourg before it could be reinforced.

Les bains
"Les bains" translates as "the baths". Are there hot springs? were there once Roman baths? WP has nothing relevant & a quick web search (possibly with wrong keywords) did not turn up anything. Pashley (talk) 08:09, 26 March 2024 (UTC)