Voie de la Liberté

Sunday, May 30. 2010

Voie de la Liberté (Liberty Road) is a route across France, starting in the area of Utah Beach and Saint Mere Eglise, ending in Bastogne, roughly following the route of Patton's Third Army. It was dedicated in 1947. I have not traced its route in great detail, but it has two "0" markers, Km 0 in Saint Mere Eglise, where the 82nd Airborne parachuted in the early morning hours of D-Day, and Km 00 on Utah beach, at roughly the spot where the first units of Patton's Third Army (including the French 2nd Armored Divsion) crossed the beach after the invasion.
The 0 marker in Saint Mere Eglise:

The 00 marker on Utah Beach:

Posted by Richard Welty in Military History at 21:58 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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