Around Place du Cuirassé Courbet (named after the French ship scuttled off Hermanville-sur-Mer to facilitate bombing operations in June 1944), you'll find a number of monuments to the heroes of the Second World War.
You can see the statue of the Norwegian Sailor, the Royal Navy Sailors' Monument, monuments to the British troops who landed on Sword Beach in 1944, and even a Centaur tank on display a little further along, to the west of the square