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Juno or Juno Beach was one of five beaches of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 during the Second World War. The beach spanned from Courseulles, a village just east of the British beach Gold, to Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, and just west of the British beach Sword.

Bernières-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [bɛʁnjɛʁ syʁ mɛʁ] (listen), literally Bernières on Sea), in the arrondissement of Caen, is a commune in the Calvados department of Normandy, in northwestern France. It is part of the canton of Courseulles-sur-Mer. It lies on the English Channel coast,3 km east of Courseulles-sur-Mer, and 17 km north of Caen.