The purpose of this web site is to make available for purchase individual plots of land located 400 yards south of Omaha beach and one mile east of the American Cemetery. This land was purchased and established as a D-Day memorial by Normandy Heritage Incorporated in preparation for the D-Day 40th anniversary commemoration in 1984. The owner of Normandy Heritage has donated a limited number of remaining plots to be sold in support of scholarship athletes at Atlanta Concorde Fire Soccer Club, a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization, and this website has been established by club volunteers for that purpose.
The memorial land, registered as Cadastre B, No. 221 in the village of Colleville-sur-Mer, is located 700 yards east of the village. The property extends from the main road (D514) 1200 feet due north towards the invasion beach. For those familiar with the Omaha beach invasion nomenclature, the land is immediately south of the F1 exit in the Fox Green sector and was probably first traversed in the late morning of June 6th, 1944 by sections of Company L, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division of the US Army. The top of the draw that formed the F1 exit begins about 250 yards from northern end of the memorial land, and the German strongpoint WN60 guarding the east side of the F1 exit would have been visible from the memorial land.
For $40, you may purchase a ninety-nine year lease* on one square foot of this D-Day memorial land that entitles you to all rights associated with owning the land, but to no responsibilities for taxes or upkeep. You will receive the beautiful, 22"x17" embossed parchment Certificate of Ownership shown at the left and a numbered Certificate of Rights and Regulations. Owners are encouraged to visit the D-Day memorial land at any time, and ownership can be freely transferred by notice to Normandy Heritage, Inc. 100% of the proceeds flow directly to the Concorde Fire scholarship fund.
If you are not satisfied, you may return the Certificate of Ownership and Certificate of Rights and Regulations in their shipping tube within thirty days of receipt for a full refund.
In preparing this website, we are greatly in debt to the D-Day historians, both official and unofficial, and to the countless groups who have made D-Day information available via the Internet in the last ten years. Those momentous hours and days of the Normandy invasion not only on Omaha Beach, but on Utah Beach to the west, the Ranger attack on Pointe du Hoc, and the British and Canadian assaults on Gold Beach, Juno Beach, and Sword Beach, are now more accessible to succeeding generations than any of us could image twenty years ago.
Wanting to make at least some small contribution, the volunteers who are building this website will focus events of June 6th, 1944 through June 9th on the eastern end of Omaha Beach: the Easy Red, Fox Green, and Fox Red landing zones, beach exits E3 and F1, the German strong points WN60, WN61, WN62, and WN63, and the land from what is now the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial through Colleville-sur-Mer to Grand Hameau. In particular, we have tried to use the high-resolution satellite imagery delivered via Google Earth and other tools to make the history more accessible and comprehensible. In March of 2006 only the four miles beginning on the eastern end of Omaha Beach and ending in Port-en-Bessin-Huppain and extending just inland of D514 are available in high resolution, but we find the ability to correlate the images with the historical timeline of the first hours of D-Day to be quite mesmerizing. We hope you will share our enjoyment and impatience for the rest of the Normandy beaches to be similarly photographed.
* The lease originated on June 6th, 1985 and runs through June 6th, 2084.
Land Plat for Colleville-sur-Mer Section B showing Memorial Land
Survey of the Memorial Land
Arial View of D-Day Memorial
Land and Colleville-sur-Mer northwest towards Utah Beach