Colleville-sur-Mer

See also: Colleville (homonymy)

Colleville-sur-Mer is a common French, located in the department of the Calvados and the area Basse-Normandie.

Geography

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The Notre-Dame church of the Assumption of Colleville dates from, classified the historic building in 1840. It was almost entirely destroyed at the time of the unloading by shootings of American destroyers because the bell-tower was used as observation post with seven German soldiers who communicated the coordinates of shootings to the German batteries. The rebuilding lasted of 1946 to 1951 and gave again with the church its aspect of pre-war period.

American cemetery

It is with the top of the beach of Omaha Bloody the, on the hill, that was built, on June 8th, 1944, the first military cemetery American of the Second world war.

Personalities related to the commune

  • Sergeant Frederick Niland: it is the true name of the Ryan soldier (of the film It is necessary to save the soldier Ryan ), because its family did not want that his true identity is revealed.
  • Theodore Roosevelt Jr: wire of the president Theodore Roosevelt, it also fought during this war and is buried in the cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer. It had, as two other people who rest here, the Medal of Honor of the Congress, and its tomb is recognizable by its inscriptions of gilded color.

See too

External bonds

  • American military Cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer
  • Colleville-sur-Mer on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Colleville-sur-Mer on the site of INSEE
  • Colleville-sur-Mer on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Colleville-sur-Mer on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Colleville-sur-Mer on Mapquest

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