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98 documents for “Saint-Laurent”.
Witness accounts · Allied service members
Captain MacGrath recalls landing with the 116th Regiment's communications group, displaced from the intended beach and faced with congestion and a rising tide.
Read the document →Maps & archives · Maps and aerial views
Twelve low-altitude aerial photographs dated 10 August 1944 show Omaha Beach, with detailed views of buildings, vehicles, ships and beachhead installations.
Read the document →After D-Day · Casualties, prisoners and cemeteries
The dossier traces the first temporary cemetery at Vierville, the collection of bodies from 7 June and the sequence of cemeteries associated with Omaha Beach.
Read the document →Maps & archives · Maps and aerial views
Detailed aerial photographs from 10 August show Omaha Beach during harbour operations, with ships, vehicles and installations visible despite clouds and negative damage.
Read the document →Witness accounts · Residents and families
Letters and recollections describe Vierville at the beginning of the war, including mobilisation, evacuated children and relations under occupation.
Read the document →The landings · German defences
Maps, photographs and commentary outline German units, command posts and artillery positions around Vierville and the wider Omaha Beach area.
Read the document →The landings · Preparations
The landing plans set out the intended combination of air attacks, naval gunfire, armour, engineers and infantry for the assault on Vierville.
Read the document →The landings · The advance inland
A synthesis follows the routes up the cliffs, the entry into Vierville and the reduction of German coastal positions during the morning of 6 June.
Read the document →The landings · The advance inland
The establishment of the 116th Infantry headquarters in Vierville around 13:00 is followed through the command group’s ascent and its effort to reassemble inland.
Read the document →The landings · The afternoon and evening of 6 June
An account of Vierville at the end of 6 June 1944, covering the limited advance, wounded soldiers, disrupted communications and losses on the beach.
Read the document →After D-Day · 7 June and reinforcements
The organisation of Vierville beach on 7 June is described alongside engineering headquarters, medical care for civilians and the continuing work of the beachhead.
Read the document →The landings · Preparations
The assault programme sets out the intended order of tanks, engineers, infantry and Rangers landing in Vierville’s Charlie, Dog Green and Dog White sectors.
Read the document →The landings · The advance inland
The German view of the morning fighting is assembled from unit positions, remembered staff sketches and commentary on command arrangements around Vierville and Omaha Beach.
Read the document →Witness accounts · Allied service members
Further extracts from Lieutenant Shea’s interviews follow Company C/116 from the beach towards Vierville, including the opening of passages through the wire.
Read the document →Witness accounts · Residents and families
Michel Hardelay recalls the afternoon of 7 June in Vierville, preparations to evacuate civilians and the shelling of the village crossroads that evening.
Read the document →After D-Day · The harbour and supplies
Overview photographs explain the Gooseberry sheltered anchorage and the shuttle craft used to move cargo from larger ships offshore to the beach and causeways.
Read the document →Witness accounts · Residents and families
Canon Bertreux's account describes the battle of Trévières, with bombardment, fires, civilian flight, casualties and efforts to care for the wounded.
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 →The landings · The crossing and the landings
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.
Read the document →The landings · The advance inland
The attack on WN70 is described through the movements of Companies A and B, 2nd Rangers, together with a section of Company D/116 after landing.
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