This was an emotional visit as you see the number of young Canadians lost, volunteers for the most part, during the days from June 6th, 1944 to the re-taking of Caen.

The gut wrench is the age of those lost

A visit to Juno Beach makes it hard to imagine what that day was like some 80 years past.

Juno Beach April 2022

But there still remains evidence of what the young soldiers faced.

German Observation
Bunker
German Flak Gun
For those who landed on the beach, who had a choice or the time to think, then this should have been what you thought about.
Remnants of landing wharves built and floated to the Normandy coast

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