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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.
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A plan and descriptions examine WN 65 west of Le Ruquet, including its antitank ditch, bunkers and coastal positions, with several identifications qualified.
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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.
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Photographs and film images follow the first landings at Le Ruquet on 6 June, showing approaching LCVPs, beach obstacles and troops on a rising tide.
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Images show reinforcement regiments and engineers landing at Le Ruquet around high tide on 6 June, when several formations arrived on the same beach.
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Photographs show wrecked craft, vehicles, debris and casualties near Le Ruquet after the first day's landings, with uncertainty retained in several dates.
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A sequence of coastal photographs, dated to around 23 June, traces the shore from La Percée to Le Ruquet and identifies damaged piers, villas and grounded craft.
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The dossier examines WN 66 and the area marked WN 67 east of Les Moulins, distinguishing unfinished works from fortifications whose existence is uncertain.
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A dossier on the landings at Les Moulins examines Dog Red and Easy Green, the WN 66 and WN 68 defences and the failure of preliminary bombardment.
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An introduction to Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer during the landings links local history, occupation accounts, coastal defences and the fighting around Les Moulins and Le Ruquet.
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Plans and photographs document WN 68 at Les Moulins, with notes on a tank turret, gun positions and the differing certainty of reconstructed features.
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The history of Villa Les Moulins traces a Saint-Laurent property from former grain mills to a seaside home and its place in the history of the landings.
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An introduction to Colleville-sur-Mer in June 1944 leads into dossiers on German strongpoints, Allied assault plans, the fighting and the village afterwards.
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The dossier examines the 6 June fighting below WN 61 and WN 62 at Colleville, in eastern Easy Red and Fox Green, beginning with the preliminary bombardment.
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Maps and commentary explain Allied plans for Colleville, linking the Fox Green and eastern Easy Red sectors with beach exits and German strongpoints.
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A plan and commentary describe WN 60 above Cabourg at the eastern end of Omaha Beach, including its weapons, shelters and artillery observation post.
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Plans and commentary examine WN 61 on Colleville beach, its flanking gun positions and the cautiously reconstructed details of its weapons and garrison.
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The dossier describes WN 62, its weapons and garrison, and the connection between the Colleville strongpoint and artillery observation inland.
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An account of the fighting east of Colleville on 6 June relates the Fox Red sector to WN 60 and the failure of preliminary bombardment to silence defences.
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Photographs and film images show Colleville after the landings, including troops, civilians, prisoners, damaged vehicles and comparisons with later views.
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