Memorial First Polish Armoured Division

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his memorial, from July 2012, remembers the fact that the First Polish Armoured Division disembarked here on the end of July 1944.

The text on the memorial:
Sur les plages d'Arromanches et
Graye/Courseulles, fin juillet 1944,
16000 soldats et 400 chars
de la 1ère Division Blindée Polonaise
ont débarqué avec à leur tête
le Général Stanislaw Maczek

The translation of the text:
On the beaches of Arromanches and
Graye/Courseulles, end of July 1944,
16000 soldiers and 400 tanks
from the 1st Polish Armoured Division
landed with his leader
General Stanislaw Maczek
Source:
en.tracesofwar.com/article/29217/Memorial-First-Polish-...
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Coordinates:   49°20'13"N   -0°28'4"E
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