Places · Vierville-sur-Mer
Strongpoint WN73 west of the Vierville exit
Maps, sketches and photographs locate WN73 around the ruined Gambier house, west of the Vierville beach exit and overlooking the landing area.
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36 documents for “Michel Hardelay”.
Witness accounts · Residents and families
The Piprel family’s recollections
Extracts recount the Piprel family’s experience around the Hôtel du Casino and Vierville during the night of 5 June and the morning of D-Day.
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Organisation of the German defences
Maps, photographs and commentary outline German units, command posts and artillery positions around Vierville and the wider Omaha Beach area.
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WN74 at Pointe de la Percée
This dossier follows WN74 at Pointe de la Percée through coastal photographs, surviving gun images and plans prepared around the 1944 landings.
Read the document →The landings · The crossing and the landings
Crossing the English Channel
Weather forecasts, convoy photographs and commentary explain the Channel crossing and the decision to postpone the landings from 5 to 6 June 1944.
Read the document →The landings · The crossing and the landings
The preliminary naval bombardment at Vierville
Photographs and commentary examine the naval gunfire preceding the Vierville landings and the continued resistance encountered as assault craft approached the shore.
Read the document →The landings · The advance inland
The morning situation at Vierville from the German side
The German view of the morning fighting is assembled from unit positions, remembered staff sketches and commentary on command arrangements around Vierville and Omaha Beach.
Read the document →The landings · The advance inland
From Dog White to Vierville
An overview traces several routes taken by infantry, Rangers and small groups from Dog White up the slopes and into Vierville during the morning of 6 June.
Read the document →The landings · The advance inland
The 116th Infantry headquarters at Vierville
The establishment of the 116th Infantry headquarters in Vierville around 13:00 is followed through the command group’s ascent and its effort to reassemble inland.
Read the document →The landings · The afternoon and evening of 6 June
The 116th Regiment's command group on the afternoon of 6 June
Follow Colonel Canham's command group in Vierville on 6 June, as the dossier examines its move to Les Isles and its increasing isolation that afternoon.
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The destruction of Vierville church tower on 6 June
Photographs and an account of the destruction of Vierville church tower on 6 June 1944, placed in the context of naval messages and isolated troops.
Read the document →After D-Day · 7 June and reinforcements
The situation in Vierville on the morning of 7 June
Photographs and movement maps document Vierville on the morning of 7 June, with access from the beach, wrecked landing craft and the aftermath of the assault.
Read the document →After D-Day · 7 June and reinforcements
Clearing Vierville, Saint-Laurent and the cliffs on 7 June
The dossier follows fighting and clearance operations around Vierville, Saint-Laurent and the cliffs on 7 June, with movements, positions and prisoners.
Read the document →Places · Saint-Laurent and Le Ruquet
Saint-Laurent emergency airfield: E1 and A21C
Plans and photographs document Saint-Laurent's emergency airfield, its construction by aviation engineers and its use for evacuating wounded people from June 1944.
Read the document →After D-Day · The harbour and supplies
The artificial harbour at Omaha Beach
Plans, photographs and commentary introduce Omaha's artificial harbour, from the Mulberry A project to the post-storm operation of the protected beachhead.
Read the document →After D-Day · Local life in 1944
Vierville church before and after the landings
Photographs trace Vierville church before the war, after damage in June 1944 and during reconstruction, with links to accounts of the tower's destruction.
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