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Colleville Beach at the town of Luc-sur-Mer is located at the point where the beaches codenamed Sword and Juno meet. The beach has a shallow incline and at low tide, shown in the sunset picture below, there’s a rather broad expanse of it going out to sea. The D-Day invasion of Normandy by British and Canadian forces occurred here. They did not meet the same brutal resistance as at Gold Beach, having come in as the tide was rising and there was fairly little beach exposure. Today Luc-sur-Mer is an architecturally unremarkable but otherwise pleasant beach town with modest hotels facing the sea.