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Witness accounts · Residents and families
The De Loÿs family’s account describes D-Day at the château de Gruchy, where family rooms shared the building with a German company headquarters.
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Fernand Olard recalls D-Day as a five-year-old child in a large family living on Rue Pavée in Vierville, with preparations to shelter from bombing.
Read the document →The landings · The crossing and the landings
An overview of the first assault wave at Vierville identifies the tanks, engineers, infantry and Rangers intended to arrive around 06:30 on 6 June.
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Plans and dated photographs trace the Sherman DD tanks and other armoured vehicles that reached the beaches around Vierville on the morning of D-Day.
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Lieutenant Dean L. Rockwell’s group of landing craft carried amphibious tanks towards Omaha Beach, illustrated here by craft plans and Martin Waarvick’s photographs.
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Extracts from Rockwell’s report of 14 July 1944 describe the LCT group carrying Sherman DD tanks towards the American landing sectors at Omaha Beach.
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The after-action report of LCT 590 records its approach to Vierville and the unloading of Sherman DD tanks under fire on the morning of 6 June.
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The Special Engineer Task Force’s assignment was to open gaps through Vierville’s beach obstacles so landing craft could reach the shore as the tide rose.
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An account of Gap Team No. 1 follows engineers and Navy demolition personnel assigned to clear an obstacle passage in front of the Vierville beach exit.
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A detailed description sets out the personnel, weapons and landing order of the assault and support teams carried aboard the first-wave LCA and LCVP craft.
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The landing of Company C, 2nd Ranger Battalion, is examined through its intended route, arrival near WN73 and the severe losses suffered below the Gambier house.
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The first landing of Company A, 116th Infantry Regiment, is described through its LCA transport arrangements and the intense fire encountered off Vierville.
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Royal Navy officer George “Jimmy” Green recalls leading the LCA flotilla that carried Company A of the 116th Infantry towards Dog Green on D-Day.
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Extracts from S. L. A. Marshall’s Battle at Best recount the landing of Company A/116 and its devastating consequences for men from Bedford, Virginia.
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Extracts from Stephen Ambrose’s D-Day bring together accounts concerning Company A/116, including a Navy beachmaster’s observations as landing craft reached Vierville.
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Thomas Valence and George Roach describe the approach and landing of their Company A/116 section, recalling rough water, exposed obstacles and unseen defensive fire.
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Lucille Hoback recalls the news received by her family in Bedford, Virginia, after her brothers Bedford and Raymond landed with Company A/116 at Omaha Beach.
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The second group of infantry and Ranger landings at Vierville is described against the scattered forces and surviving equipment already on the beach.
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Company B/116’s landing became dispersed across the Vierville beachfront as its craft approached the intended Dog Green sector and encountered the first wave’s losses.
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Radio operator Robert “Bob” Sales recounts landing with Captain Zappacosta and Company B/116, describing the fire on the ramp and his struggle to reach cover.
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