EVRECY/NOYERS-BOCAGE Calvados - 11 km south-west of Caen
The IInd SS Panzer-Korps moved to the west
 On 30 July 1944, General Dempsey launched an offensive starting from Caumont-l’Eventé, east of Saint-Lô. The Operation Bluecoat must dismantle the German lines in an area where there is no important armoured unit. The attack started with a huge traffic jam, the progression was slow in this hedgerow favourable to the defenders. On 2 August, the 11th Armoured Division entered Le Beny-Bocage; General von Klüge striked back by transferring the IInd SS Panzer-Korps to the west of the river Orne, and the Allied offensive is blocked. But in order to prepare the offensive on Mortain, under high command of Hitler, the Germans made a strategic withdrawal. This enabled the British to liberate several towns without fighting. In Evrecy and Noyers-Bocage the front line had been static since three weeks, they were cleared with enemy on 5 August.
   
 
 
   
 
 
Typhoon pilots monument
Noyers-Bocage
Monument dedicated to the Typhoon hunters pilots who died during the Battle of Normandy.
 Situation : at the edge of the D675 road at the gate of the town coming from Villers-Bocage
   
   
 

Royal Welch Fusiliers monument
Evrecy
Monument set up by the Royal Welch Fusiliers in memory of the 235 officers and men of the 4th, 6th and 7th Battalions, who died during the liberation of Normandy, between June and August 1944; this monument is also in memory of French population suffering and those who died during the fighting.
 Situation : at the edge of the D8 road at the gate of the town, coming from Caen
  Civilian casualties monument
Evrecy
Monument in memory of the 130 civilian casualties killed in the air bombing on 15 June 1944.
Situation : on a place in the town center
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INTERESTING WEB SITES

City of Evrecy web site
http://www.ville-evrecy.fr
Page of the Royal Air Force web site about D-day operations
http://www.raf.mod.uk/dday/index.html
Personal web site about the Normandy battle – articles and photographs
http://www.warchronicle.com/dday/contents.htm
Calvados departmental tourism office web site
http://www.calvados-tourisme.com/

 
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