Cotentin Peninsula

The Cotentin Peninsula, also known as the Cherbourg Peninsula, is a peninsula in Normandy, forming part of the north-western coast of France. It juts out north-westwards into the English Channel, towards Great Britain and its northern coastline was the site of the famed World War II invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europa by the Allies on D-Day, 6 June 1944, while its river- and canal-crossed agricultural terrain suffered the next months fighting as the allies sought to break out of their lodgement. To its west lie the Channel Islands and to the southwest lies the Brittany Peninsula.