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79 documents for “Colleville”.
Places · Saint-Laurent and Le Ruquet
The dossier follows fighting at Le Ruquet in western Easy Red, relating the assault to WN 64 and WN 65 and the shortcomings of preliminary bombardment.
Read the document →After D-Day · Reinforcements and the beachhead
The dossier explains the organisation of the Engineer Special Brigades and 11th Port, with photographs and reports on the management of the Omaha beachhead.
Read the document →Maps & archives · Maps and aerial views
Twelve low-altitude aerial photographs dated 10 August 1944 show Omaha Beach, with detailed views of buildings, vehicles, ships and beachhead installations.
Read the document →After D-Day · The harbour and supplies
Overview photographs explain the Gooseberry sheltered anchorage and the shuttle craft used to move cargo from larger ships offshore to the beach and causeways.
Read the document →After D-Day · The harbour and supplies
Photographs and commentary describe LST unloading at Omaha, including beaching, tidal constraints and later transfers to Rhino ferries or other craft offshore.
Read the document →Maps & archives · Maps and aerial views
Detailed aerial photographs from 10 August show Omaha Beach during harbour operations, with ships, vehicles and installations visible despite clouds and negative damage.
Read the document →Witness accounts · German servicemen
Hans Heinze describes D-Day from the perspective of a young German officer serving with the 916th Infantry Regiment near Formigny and Omaha Beach.
Read the document →The landings · German defences
This dossier explains the beach obstacles, mines and cliff-top positions that formed the German defensive system in the Omaha Beach area in 1944.
Read the document →Maps & archives · Maps and aerial views
American maps of Omaha Beach are presented with their scales, issue dates, beach sectors and supporting information such as profiles and tide curves.
Read the document →The landings · Preparations
Ships, fire-support groups and firing schedules illustrate the naval bombardment planned to support the assault on Omaha Beach and the Vierville sector.
Read the document →After D-Day · Casualties, prisoners and cemeteries
Photographs document care for wounded soldiers and civilians at Omaha Beach, including aid posts, evacuation by sea and later medical flights from Saint-Laurent.
Read the document →After D-Day · Casualties, prisoners and cemeteries
The dossier traces the first temporary cemetery at Vierville, the collection of bodies from 7 June and the sequence of cemeteries associated with Omaha Beach.
Read the document →After D-Day · The harbour and supplies
Post-war photographs show surviving Phoenix caissons, Gooseberry blockships, Whale roadway wrecks and other remains on the Omaha coast after military operations ended.
Read the document →Maps & archives · Maps and aerial views
Aerial photographs dated 28 August 1947 show Omaha Beach with harbour wrecks, blockships, causeways and the cemetery still visible in the post-war landscape.
Read the document →The landings · The advance inland
Naval support during the fighting for Vierville is examined through the participating ships, close-support craft and the practical difficulty of identifying targets ashore.
Read the document →The landings · The advance inland
Photographs taken from offshore show landing craft, DUKWs, waiting ships, troop transfers and rescue activity around Omaha Beach during the morning and around midday.
Read the document →Places · Saint-Laurent and Le Ruquet
Plans and commentary describe WN 64 east of Le Ruquet, its gun and mortar positions, unfinished construction and the uncertainty surrounding its strength.
Read the document →After D-Day · The harbour and supplies
Maps, vessel lists and photographs trace the scuttling of Corncob blockships to form the Gooseberry breakwater, with uncertain identifications kept explicit.
Read the document →After D-Day · The harbour and supplies
Photographs and technical notes document LCVP, LCA and LCM craft as shuttles between ships and Omaha Beach, with particular attention to the continuing use of LCMs.
Read the document →The landings · About the collection
An introduction to the documents, photographs and witness accounts assembled by Yves Cordelle on Omaha Beach, with particular attention to Vierville.
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