Normandy Overlord Guide v1.20.03 release, a huge number of new added geolocations
Normandy Overlord Guide v1.20.03 brings 67 new geolocations that includes 56 strongpoints
D-DAYOVERLORD NORMANDY GUIDENORMANDY
Eduardo Domínguez Menéndez
11/26/20252 min read
Before explain new features of this release a short summary about what you can expect from this Normandy Overlord Guide app:
Precise coordinates, instantly locate beaches, bunkers, batteries and key battle sites.
Normandy Overlord Guide helps you plan every step of your journey. Whether you’re preparing your itinerary from home or exploring Normandy on foot, the app offers precise location details, historical context, and travel tips to make the most of your trip. Easily navigate between key D-Day sites, organize your museum visits,... Ensure a well-planned and deeply enriching travel experience.
This app isn’t just for travelers, it’s a powerful reference you can use anytime and anywhere. Even if you’re not in Normandy nor plan to go, you can explore detailed maps, historical accounts and curated images from your phone or tablet. You can explore detailed maps, historical accounts and curated images from your phone or tablet.
A gallery of photographs and historical documents
What’s New in Normandy Overlord Guide v1.20.03
Version 1.20.03 of Normandy Overlord Guide adds 67 landmarks. It is focused on strongpoints along Normandy coast, 56 on total. With this new batch almost all the strongpoints are considered. You will be able to walk through Normandy beaches and figure out the these allocations.
Strongpoints
This update focuses on add more geolocations of Wn (Widerstandsnest / Resistance Nest) strongpoints manned by small platoon force composed by 10-30 soldiers and the larger strongpoints called Stp (Stützpunkt / Support Point) which are company strength defensive positions, designed to anchor a defense line and support smaller, adjacent Wn positions.
The new locations are distributed on these zones: of Gold, Juno, Sword landing beaches, surroundings of Isigny sur Mer, Grandcamp Maisy, Pegasus Bridge and Francesville Plague. As you can check most of them are within British and Canadian sector.
The total number of new strongpoints is 56.
The exact distribution is as follows:
Surroundings of Isigny sur Mer and Grandcamp Maisy (in the gap between Utah and Omaha) -> 8 new strongpoints
Gold -> 24 new strongpoints
Juno -> 6 new strongpoints
Sword -> 10 new strongpoints
Surroundings of Pegasus Bridge -> 7 new strongpoints
Surroundings of Francesville Plague (East side of mouth river Orne)-> 5 new strongpoints
Combat actions and relevant/insightful locations
But the data base on others topics interesting topics continues growing with more new geo locations (11 in total), some examples:
- Geolocation of position of an anti-submarine net
- Rests of mulberry of Omaha
- Landing beach of American Rangers on Omaha
- Gambier's house on Omaha
- A dive into the Wn 62 of Omaha, with geolocated of defending positions: Severloh's Mg-42, Gockel's Mg-08, Tobruk and other Mg allocations
- And a few more...