Sainte Marie du Mont
is really Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Normandy
Real place, reimagined
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
The multiplayer map Sainte Marie du Mont fights over the streets, barns and gun pits of a small Normandy village, known to players for the red house in the middle. The game borrows the name and setting of the village behind Utah Beach, one of the first places in France to be liberated on D-Day.
The real place
Sainte-Marie-du-Mont sits just inland from Utah Beach, and American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne fought through it on the morning of 6 June 1944. Its tall church tower was used as a lookout by both sides, and information panels around the square tell the story of the day.
Visiting
Park near the church and walk the square, then drive the 5 km to the Utah Beach Landing Museum. In early June the village fills with D-Day commemorations and reenactors, so book a room early if you go then.
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