On their second day abroad in France, the Longview Choir group continued their immersion in history with visits to Arromanches-les-Bains, Gold Beach, Saint Lo and Bayeux.
The students from Longview visited the D-Day 360 Museum in Arromanches. Here, the choir members will got an overview of the history they will explore in the week ahead. It was at Arromanches that the Allies set up a temporary harbor to offload critical equipment immediately after D-Day on June 6, 1944.
Later, they spent the afternoon in Bayeux, the first town to be liberated in the Battle of Normandy and the site of a famous speech by French General Charles de Gaulle.
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