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The landings ↗

  1. 01The 1944 landings at Omaha Beach
  2. 11Organisation of the German defences
  3. 112The German defences at Omaha Beach
  4. 1120The beach obstacles at Vierville
  5. 12Preparations for the landings
  6. 125Air bombardment planned for Vierville
  7. 126Naval forces and the planned bombardment of Omaha Beach
  8. 1262The Coast Guard rescue flotilla
  9. 127Plans for the assault landings
  10. 1271The landings planned off Vierville
  11. 128The Ascain commando at Saint-Laurent
  12. 20The landings actually carried out at Vierville
  13. 21Crossing the English Channel
  14. 22Transport anchorages and the approach to the beach
  15. 221LSI assault transports
  16. 222The current carried small landing craft eastwards
  17. 231The air bombardment on 6 June
  18. 2311A report on the air bombardment
  19. 232The preliminary naval bombardment at Vierville
  20. 24The first assault wave
  21. 241Amphibious Sherman tanks on Vierville beach
  22. 2411Lieutenant Rockwell and his tank-carrying LCTs
  23. 242The Special Engineer Task Force at Vierville
  24. 2421Special Engineer Task Force Gap Team No. 1
  25. 243Organisation of the assault craft teams
  26. 2431Company C, 2nd Ranger Battalion
  27. 2432Company A, 116th Infantry Regiment: the landing
  28. 25The second infantry assault wave
  29. 251Company B, 116th Infantry Regiment
  30. 252Company C, 116th Infantry Regiment
  31. 253Company D/116: the landing
  32. 256Companies A and B, 2nd Ranger Battalion: the landing
  33. 257The landing of the 5th Ranger Battalion
  34. 258Headquarters of the 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry
  35. 26Headquarters, artillery and engineers land from 07:40
  36. 261General Cota and Colonel Canham
  37. 2611The 116th RCT command group
  38. 262The engineers’ landings
  39. 2621LCI 91 is destroyed on Dog White at 07:45
  40. 26211Company B, 147th Engineers: the landing
  41. 2622LCI 92 at Vierville on 6 June
  42. 2623LCI 84 abandons its Dog White landing attempt at 09:00
  43. 263Artillery landings at Vierville on 6 June
  44. 30The cliff assault, capture of Vierville and collapse of coastal defence, 07:30–13:00
  45. 302The morning situation at Vierville from the German side
  46. 303US Navy support during the assault on Vierville
  47. 3031Navy shore fire-control parties
  48. 304The situation seen from USS Ancon and USS Augusta
  49. 305Views from the sea around midday on 6 June
  50. 31Company C, 2nd Rangers, overcomes WN73 at the Gambier house
  51. 321Lieutenant Taylor of Company B/116
  52. 322The attack on WN70 above the Hardelay villa
  53. 33From Dog White to Vierville
  54. 331Company C/116’s advance to Vierville
  55. 332The 5th Rangers bypass Vierville, then cross the village westwards around 17:00
  56. 3323Parker’s 5th Ranger platoon heads towards Pointe du Hoc via L’Ormel
  57. 334Lieutenant Williams and Sergeant Price of Company B/116
  58. 34The 116th Infantry headquarters at Vierville
  59. 35Engineers on Vierville beach during the morning and early afternoon
  60. 351The 121st Engineers regroup and demolish Vierville’s anti-tank wall
  61. 352The 147th Engineer Battalion on the beach
  62. 4Vierville on the afternoon and evening of 6 June: the day's outcome
  63. 41The 116th Regiment's command group on the afternoon of 6 June
  64. 411The destruction of Vierville church tower on 6 June
  65. 42Infantry and Rangers in Vierville on the afternoon of 6 June
  66. 43Engineers on the beach and in Vierville on the afternoon of 6 June
  67. 431William Marshall of the 336th Engineer Battalion
  68. 44The 29th Division's command post in Vierville quarry
  69. 45The German side on the afternoon and evening of 6 June

Places ↗

  1. 1130Strongpoint WN70 at Hamel-au-Prêtre
  2. 1131Strongpoint WN71 east of the Vierville exit
  3. 1132WN72 at the Vierville beach exit
  4. 1133Strongpoint WN73 west of the Vierville exit
  5. 1134WN74 at Pointe de la Percée
  6. 1135The German radar station at Englesqueville-la-Percée
  7. 60Saint-Laurent and the landings of 1944
  8. 603WN 64: the strongpoint east of Le Ruquet
  9. 604WN 65: the strongpoint west of Le Ruquet
  10. 605WN 66 and the area identified as WN 67 east of Les Moulins
  11. 606WN 68 at Les Moulins, west of the beach road
  12. 607WN 69 in Saint-Laurent
  13. 61Allied assault plans for Saint-Laurent
  14. 621The landings and fighting at Les Moulins: Dog Red and Easy Green
  15. 622Fighting at Le Ruquet on 6 June: WN 64, WN 65 and western Easy Red
  16. 6221The first landings at Le Ruquet on the morning of 6 June
  17. 6222Reinforcements and engineers landing at Le Ruquet from 10:00 on 6 June
  18. 6223Le Ruquet on 7 June: wreckage on the beach
  19. 63Saint-Laurent after the fighting of 6 June
  20. 631The history of Villa Les Moulins at Saint-Laurent
  21. 632Saint-Laurent emergency airfield: E1 and A21C
  22. 70Colleville and the landings of 1944
  23. 701WN 60 on the Colleville cliff above Cabourg
  24. 702WN 61 on Colleville beach
  25. 703WN 62 at Colleville
  26. 704WN 63: underground headquarters for Companies 3/726 and 8/916
  27. 71Allied plans to capture Colleville
  28. 722Fighting at Colleville on 6 June: eastern Easy Red and Fox Green
  29. 723Fighting east of Colleville on 6 June: WN 60 and Fox Red
  30. 73Colleville in photographs after 6 June 1944
  31. 731Colleville and its A22C airfield
  32. 93Pointe du Hoc: photographs of the liberation
  33. 931Saint-Pierre-du-Mont and Englesqueville A1 airfield
  34. 94Trévières during and after the liberation

Witness accounts ↗

  1. 011Vierville during the German occupation
  2. 0111Letters and accounts from Vierville, 1939–1941
  3. Hans, do you remember?
  4. 111Lieutenant Heinze’s account
  5. 201Michel Hardelay’s recollections: 4–5 June 1944
  6. 202Edmond Scelles: recollections of Saint-Laurent
  7. 2321Michel Hardelay’s recollections: the night and dawn of 5–6 June
  8. 2322Louis Coliboeuf’s recollections
  9. 2323The Piprel family’s recollections
  10. 2324The De Loÿs family’s recollections of 6 June at Gruchy
  11. 2329Fernand Olard’s recollections
  12. 24321Lieutenant Green’s account
  13. 24322A detailed account of Company A/116’s landing
  14. 24323Company A/116 testimonies from Stephen Ambrose’s D-Day
  15. 24324Company A/116: Thomas Valence and George Roach
  16. 244Lucille Hoback, aged fourteen in Bedford in 1944
  17. 2512Robert Sales’s account: Company B/116
  18. 2513Lieutenant Nance’s account
  19. 2514Sergeant Bill Presley’s account
  20. 2521Lieutenant Shea’s interviews: Company C/116
  21. 2531Sergeant Slaughter’s account: Company D/116
  22. 254Sergeant Branham’s account: Company K/116
  23. 2561Lieutenant Edlin’s account: Company A, 2nd Rangers
  24. 25715th Ranger Battalion landing testimonies
  25. 2581Don McCarthy’s LCA sinks off Vierville
  26. 26221Seth Shepard’s account: LCI 92
  27. 3021A German soldier at Vierville on D-Day
  28. 3061Michel Hardelay’s recollections: the liberation of Vierville
  29. 3062Madame Dubois’s account
  30. 3063The first Americans in Vierville: Victorine Houyvet
  31. 3064The first Americans in Vierville: Bernard Lecornichon
  32. 3065Madame Ygouf’s account from Les Isles, Vierville
  33. 3311Further interviews by Lieutenant Shea: Company C/116
  34. 33215th Ranger Battalion testimonies
  35. 3322Lieutenant Dawson’s account: Company D, 5th Rangers
  36. 333Captain Walker climbs the bluff alone
  37. 3511Sergeant Dube’s account, part 1: the anti-tank wall
  38. 3521Lieutenant Itzel’s account: 147th Engineers
  39. 40Michel Hardelay's recollections (4): the afternoon and evening of 6 June
  40. 421The mayor of Englesqueville remembers 6 June
  41. 502Sergeant Dube's recollections (3): the counterattack of 7 June
  42. 510War correspondent Ernie Pyle's account
  43. 511Michel Hardelay's recollections (5): the morning of 7 June
  44. 512Sergeant Dube's recollections (4): fighting at Vierville on 7 June
  45. 515The Piprel family's recollections (2): 7 June
  46. 516At Vierville bus station on 7 June: Michel Hardelay's recollections (5b)
  47. 517The mayor of Englesqueville remembers (2): 7 June
  48. 541The de Loÿs family's recollections (2): Gruchy on 7 June
  49. 561Michel Hardelay's recollections (6): evacuation and shelling on 7 June
  50. 571Richard Willstatter's testimony aboard LST 133
  51. 6211Captain MacGrath's account from the 116th Regiment's communications group
  52. 7031Franz Gockel's recollections of garrison life at Colleville
  53. 7221Franz Gockel's recollections (2): 6 June at WN 62
  54. 832GI Joe Bossi at the Ferme des Isles
  55. 85102Michel Hardelay's recollections of the beach and harbour
  56. 860Fernand Leterrier's letter of 23 June 1944
  57. 861Michel Hardelay's recollections (7): Vierville on 8 June
  58. 862Michel Hardelay's recollections (8): Than and Le Vaumicel on 8 June
  59. 863Michel Hardelay's recollections (9): Vacqueville on 8 June
  60. 864Michel Hardelay's recollections (10): 9 June and the following days
  61. 941The battle of Trévières as recalled by Canon Bertreux
  62. Saint-Laurent airfield: accounts by M. Conti and Miss Tierney

Maps & archives ↗

  1. 110German order of battle
  2. 121Maps prepared for Omaha Beach
  3. 122Coastal panoramas and profiles prepared in 1944
  4. 123Aerial photographs from 1943–1944
  5. 124Oblique aerial views of the coast, 1943–1944
  6. 1261Organisation of the US Navy forces
  7. 1272116th RCT loading table for Dog Green and Dog White
  8. 2412Lieutenant Rockwell’s report
  9. 2413The LCT 590 after-action report
  10. 26212Report of LCI 91’s commanding officer
  11. 2624The 121st Engineer Battalion operational report
  12. 3020Telephone message log of the German 352nd Infantry Division
  13. 831Aerial photographs of Omaha Beach on 10 August 1944
  14. 85001US Navy organisation off Omaha Beach
  15. 85101Statistics for Mulberry A and the port of Omaha Beach
  16. 85134Coastal panoramas after the storm, from La Percée to Le Ruquet
  17. 85135Aerial photographs of harbour activity at Omaha Beach on 10 August 1944
  18. 92Omaha Beach from the air in summer 1947
  19. 932A1 airfield at Saint-Pierre-du-Mont: an extract from La Renaissance

After D-Day ↗

  1. 5The situation in Vierville on the morning of 7 June
  2. 50The German counterattack at dawn on 7 June
  3. 501American prisoners at L'Ormel on 7 June
  4. 51Clearing Vierville, Saint-Laurent and the cliffs on 7 June
  5. 513Fighting in the woods of Vierville château on 7 June
  6. 52The 115th Infantry Regiment advances south of Vierville on 7 June
  7. 53Rangers and the 1st Battalion, 116th Regiment, advance towards Pointe du Hoc
  8. 54The 175th Infantry Regiment crosses Vierville towards Gruchy and La Cambe
  9. 55The 110th Field Artillery Battalion at Vierville on 7–8 June
  10. 56The shelling of Vierville crossroads on the evening of 7 June
  11. 57Conditions improve on Vierville beach on 7 June
  12. 81Reinforcements arriving from 8 June onwards
  13. 82Senior Allied commanders visit Omaha Beach on 12 June 1944
  14. 83The Engineer Special Brigades at Omaha Beach
  15. 841The wounded on Omaha Beach
  16. 842German prisoners on Omaha Beach
  17. 8431Vierville's first temporary cemetery between beach and cliff
  18. 8432The second cemetery, known as Saint-Laurent, at Colleville
  19. 85100The artificial harbour at Omaha Beach
  20. 85110Building the artificial harbour at Omaha Beach
  21. 85111Installing the Bombardon floating breakwaters
  22. 85112Installing the Phoenix reinforced-concrete caissons
  23. 85113Installing the Corncob blockship breakwater
  24. 85114Installing the Lobnitz floating pierheads
  25. 85115Installing the Whale floating roadways
  26. 85116The metal pontoon causeways on the beach
  27. 85120Operating the Gooseberry harbour
  28. 85121Operating the Mulberry harbour
  29. 85123Rhino ferries: self-propelled unloading pontoons
  30. 85124Landing Ship, Tank: LST operations at Omaha Beach
  31. 85125Landing Craft, Tank and landing barges
  32. 85126The smaller landing craft: LCVP, LCA and LCM
  33. 85127DUKW amphibious trucks, known as ducks
  34. 85128Shore operations of the Engineer Special Brigades and 11th Port
  35. 85129The loss of Empire Broadsword
  36. 85130The storm of 19–22 June 1944
  37. 85131Photographs of the storm in June 1944
  38. 85132Wrecks left after the June storm
  39. 85133The Seabees' workshops and repair work
  40. 85141The artificial harbour after the war
  41. 85142Dismantling the artificial harbour in 1950–1954
  42. 85201The pipelines at Sainte-Honorine and Port-en-Bessin
  43. 85301Isigny and Grandcamp: secondary ports linked to Omaha Beach
  44. 86Vierville during the summer of 1944
  45. 865Vierville church before and after the landings
  46. 866Vierville château before and during the war
  47. 867The Manoir de Than before and after the landings
  48. 90Vierville after the Americans left
  49. 91The ammunition-depot explosion at Asnières in October 1945
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