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186 documents for “Vierville”.
Witness accounts · Residents and families
A letter dated 23 June 1944 passes on indirect news from Vierville to people cut off from the village, identifying the witnesses on whom its account relies.
Read the document →Witness accounts · Residents and families
Michel Hardelay describes Vierville from 9 June onwards, with an account involving the damaged church tower and views of the village crossroads.
Read the document →Maps & archives · Reports and documents
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.
Read the document →After D-Day · 7 June and reinforcements
Accounts describe the capture of American engineers near L'Ormel on 7 June and the concern caused in Vierville by the early German counterattack.
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Charles Lepelletier recalls 7 June at Englesqueville and a journey to Vierville, with uncertainty over the date of his search for an American doctor.
Read the document →The landings · The crossing and the landings
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.
Read the document →After D-Day · 7 June and reinforcements
Maps and photographs follow Rangers, infantry and tanks moving from Vierville towards Pointe du Hoc, with notes on the locations and identification of vehicles.
Read the document →Witness accounts · Allied servicemen and correspondents
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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Richard Willstatter, an engineering officer aboard LST 133, recalls treating casualties offshore and the ship's attempt to unload at Vierville on 7 June.
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Press extracts published in June 2001 relate the story of American serviceman Joe Bossi, who was billeted at the Ferme des Isles in Vierville.
Read the document →Places · Vierville-sur-Mer
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 →Places · Vierville-sur-Mer
A study of WN70 above the Hardelay villa brings together aerial views, photographs and tentative plans of a strongpoint still under construction.
Read the document →Places · Vierville-sur-Mer
Photographs and local accounts trace the German radar installation at Englesqueville-la-Percée and the earlier semaphore station on the same stretch of coast.
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 →Maps & archives · Maps and aerial views
Coastal profiles and descriptive texts show how the Omaha Beach shoreline, exits, bluffs and buildings were represented for the forces approaching from sea.
Read the document →Maps & archives · Maps and aerial views
Oblique aerial photographs show the coastline from Colleville to La Percée and beyond, with numbered views and assembled panoramas to aid orientation.
Read the document →Witness accounts · Residents and families
Edmond Scelles, who was sixteen in June 1944, describes occupied life around the Prieuré at Saint-Laurent before recounting the landings elsewhere in the collection.
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Michel Hardelay recounts the night before the landings and the first hours of 6 June, with sketches and editorial notes comparing his remembered timings.
Read the document →The landings · The crossing and the landings
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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