Bernières-sur-Mer

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Bernières-sur-Mer is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France.

In 1944, Le Régiment de la Chaudière, a French Canadian infantry unit, came ashore at Bernières-sur-Mer as a part of Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings which began the liberation of France in World War II.
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Coordinates:   49°19'49"N   -0°25'19"E
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