Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer before the war
Here you will find documents describing the heritage and history of the municipality of Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, classified in several chapters:
- generalities on the village and its origins (page 721),
- The orthophotosplans of 2001 of the General Council (page 7211)
- Historical data on the castle of St-Laurent (page 722) and the property derived from it, which bears the name of the Priory.
- A description of the church (page 723)
- Postcards and old images:
Of the village (page 724),
shops on Moulins beach (page726),
villas in the Moulins district (page 727),
Of the Plage des Moulins (page 728),
Of place-called "Le Ruquet, (page 729).
Other information about St-Laurent are gathered on the website of the municipality of Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer that you can consult with interest.
The historical Saint-Laurent is told in detail in the book by Raymond Daniel and Marie France Benoist, including the time of occupation.
The time of the Second World War is marked in Saint Laurent by the raid of British commandoes on the night of September 12 to 132, 1942 and by the Landing of 1944:
- The British commando raid on the night of September 12-13, 1942. During the occupation, while the sites of a future landing were not yet chosen by the Allies, St. Lawrence Beach was the dramatic scene of a British Commando action: theOperation Aquatint. This operation is described in detail in the book written by Gérard Fournier and André Heintz, who were able to bring together British and German information sources.
- The history of St. Lawrence at the time of the 1944 landing was collected on the website http://omahabeach.free.fr, on pages 60 and following.
- The artificial ports Mulberry A and Gooseberry B that were built in 1944 off Omaha Beach are described with many photos on a website dedicated to the entire port.