D-Day: Commonwealth Sectors
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D-Day: Commonwealth Sectors
7. Ranville War Cemetery![Location Pin](https://wejunket-comb.b-cdn.net/wp-content/themes/wejunket/assets/images/location_pin.png)
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The peaceful surroundings of the cemetery and churchyard at Ranville hold the remains of the soldiers killed during the D-Day Landings. Many are from the 6th Airborne who lost their lives in the fields of the surrounding countryside whilst taking or defending the bridges across the Caen Canal and the River Orne. The dead were also relocated here from battlefield graves at Amfreville, Colleville-sur-Orne, Houlgate, Colombelles and Villers-sur-Mer. The cemetery cares for the graves of 2,151 British, 76 Canadians, Five French and 322 Germans. There are also the remains of a Belgian, Pole, a New Zealander and an Australian. Buried here are brothers, Maurice and Phillippe Rousseau fighting with the 1st Canadian Paratroopers, the war poet Major W.J.F. Jarmain, 19 year old, E.S Corteil of the 9th Parachute Battalion, along with his dog and the 13th Parachute Battalion's R.J. Johns, at 16, the youngest paratrooper to die during the war.
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- Zero Hour
- The Commonwealth Sector
- Pegasus and Horsa Bridges
- Glider Landing Zone
- Cafe Gondree
- Musee Pegasus
- Ranville War Cemetery
- Musee de la Batterie de Mervil
- "Firm Point"
- Main Gate Diversion Attack
- Assault glider landing
- Calvary Cross Junction
- The Vauban Redoute
- Bridges across the Dives
- Grand Chateau de Varavill
- River Divette Bridge
- Bridge at Robehomme
- Two Bridges of Bures
- Troarn Bridge
- Sword Beach
- Ouistreham
- Casino de Ouistreham
- Tanks Obstacles
- Flak Tower
- Grand Bunker
- Lock Gates
- Daimler WN12
- Chateau d'eau
- Hermanville-sur-Mer
- Hotel de la Breche
- Centaur IV Tank
- Cod Casemate WN20
- British War Cemetery
- Lion-sur-Mer
- Trout Casemate WN21
- Hillman Casemate WN17
- Juno Beach
- Langrune-sur-Mer
- St Aubin-sur-Mer
- Casemate WN27
- Casemate WN28
- Maison des Canadiens
- Courseulles-sur-Mar
- Casemate WN29
- Sherman Tank
- Juno Beach Centre
- Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Ceme
- Tailleville
- Radar Museum
- British War Cemetery
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