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 lodgemen… (More on Cotentin)