Normandy's D-Day World War Two beaches become UNESCO heritage site
PARIS, July 26 - The Normandy D-Day beaches where Allied forces landed on June 6, 1944, to fight Adolf Hitler's Nazi troops and go on to liberate France have become a UNESCO protected world heritage site, the United Nations body said on Sunday.
UNESCO Adds D-Day Beaches and Mount Olympus
- Unesco adds D-Day landing beaches and Mount Olympus to world heritage list TheJournal.ie —
- D-Day beaches inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage List RTE —
- UNESCO Adds D-Day Beaches, Mount Olympus to World Heritage List Newsweek —
- D-Day beaches inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage List The Straits Times —
- Monument honouring British D-Day heroes given same status as Taj Mahal and Pyramids Daily Express —