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Places · Saint-Laurent and Le Ruquet
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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Maps and commentary set out Allied assault plans for Saint-Laurent, covering Dog Red, Easy Green and western Easy Red and the intended beach exits.
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Images of Saint-Laurent after the first day's fighting document the beach exit, antitank wall, damaged buildings and continuing clearance of the area.
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Plans and photographs document Saint-Laurent's emergency airfield, its construction by aviation engineers and its use for evacuating wounded people from June 1944.
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The dossier locates WN 69 in Saint-Laurent and describes command posts, road barriers, buried communications and rocket-launcher positions nearby.
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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.
Read the document →The landings · Preparations
Yves Cordelle brings together scattered evidence about a reported Allied commando action at Saint-Laurent during the night of 5–6 June 1944.
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.
Read the document →After D-Day · Casualties, prisoners and cemeteries
Photographs and commentary document the second temporary cemetery at Colleville, commonly called Saint-Laurent, and distinguish it from the later permanent cemetery.
Read the document →After D-Day · 7 June and reinforcements
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 →Witness accounts · Allied servicemen and correspondents
Accounts by M. Conti and Miss Tierney concern Saint-Laurent airfield, including the engineers' search for a site, construction work and the first aircraft arrivals.
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 →Places · Pointe du Hoc and surroundings
Plans and photographs document A1 airfield near Saint-Pierre-du-Mont and Englesqueville, with construction dates, technical details and a local press account.
Read the document →The landings · The advance inland
The movements of Lieutenant Williams and a small Company B/116 group are traced from eastern Dog White towards the defences above the Saint-Laurent exit.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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