My name is ARS.  I take a lot of interest in D-day on 6 June 1944. In 1994 (D-day + 50 years)  I made a my first tour along the invasion beaches Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. On 28 and 29 September  (D-day + 55 years) I made my second tour. I visited memorials I did not see the previous tour. But I am sure that I will have to make another tour, since there are still anough memorials and museums I did not see already. But going to Normandy is a very good idea! Not only because of  the D-day memorials, but you can also enjoy  the landscape, the nice villages and rest. Not at least the people, who are very friendly. I enjoyed Normandy in France very much!  Normandy is an open air museum.  The Départements of Calvados, La Manche and the Orne have signed eight recommended local routes for what is described as an open-air-museum of memory in Normandy, Land of Liberty. Their white directional signs all carry the logo of a seagull in flight and at important sites well-researched, informative blue signboards (called Normandie Terre-Liberté - NTL-Totems) describe the orther sites in the section and summarise what happened at the site in French and in English. 

 The sections are:

1. Overlord - L'Assaut (The Assault):  PegasusBridge/SWORD/JUNO/GOLD Beaches 

2. D-day - Le Choc (The Onslaught):  Bayeux/Port-en-Bessin/OMAHA Beach/Pointe du Hoc/UTAH Beach

3. Objectif - un Port (objective - a Port): US Airborne/UTAH Beach to Cherbourg     

4. L'Affrontement (The Confrontation): The British break-out round Caen/Panzers in the Bocage 

5. Cobra - Percée (Operation COBRA/The Breakout): From Cherbourg to Avranches. Patton's tanks on Liberty Highway   

6. Le Contre - Attaque (The Counter-Attack): Last German offensive at Mortain. The Panzers retreat         

7. L'Encerclement (The Encirclement): From Alencon to L'Aigle. General Leclerc's tanks progress. 8th German Army encircled.

8. Le Dénouement (The Outcome): From Caen to L'Aigle. The Polish, Canadian and British close the Falaise Gap. End of the Battle of Normandy.   

On many traffic circles you may see the Allied flags surrounding a memorial to the Battle of Normandy and be not surprised to view a tank besides the road. A lot of traffic signs refer to D-day memorials and musea. Near every memorial and museum you see a totem with an overview of other memorials in that area.  In many museums you may see the weapons used by both sides. For example the Museum of the Battle of the Falaise Pocket in Falaise. German armed cars and even a PZKW IV tank are displayed in a 1:1 diorama. It is worth visiting this museum!