The Pointe du Hoc and neighboring villages before 1944

La Pointe du Hoc and nearby municipalities

75 - Images from before war and after the war in the municipalities of

Cricqueville,

Saint-Pierre-du-Mont

and at the Pointe du Hoc showing its evolution through the years and centuries

The fights of the Pointe du Hoc are evoked with many photos on the site:

"http://omahabeach.vierville.free.htm"

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1920, Château Saint Pierre

The Château Saint-Pierre

in St-Pierre du Mont

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(details) 1920, Château Saint Pierre

The Château Saint-Paul in Cricqueville, destroyed during the bombing of the Pointe du Hoc in 1944

(details) 1920, Château Saint Paul, South side

(details) August 1938, Château St Paul North Side

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(Details) 1920, Château Saint Paul North side

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(details) Bavent farm 1944

(details) Menneville Castle, in Cricqueville

Church of St-Pierre du Mont

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Freme from Grévilly to Cricqueville, photos FrMathy around 2008

The hamlet of the Mountain in Cricqueville, around 2006

The mansion of Mauny

(details) Manoir de Mauny, 1920

(details)Manoir de Mauny, 2005

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(details) in 1866

From 1900 to 1940

around 1900

A canvas by Monnet, around 1900??

(details) The tip around 1910

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(details) around 1920

(details) around 1930, view at low sea

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(details) around 1930

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Sumer 1939, 4 cousins Chedal and Cordelle on an excursion to the Pointe du Hoc

The tip of the Hoc in pictures through the ages

From 1945 to 1975

1949

1949

(details) around 1950

(details) 1949, seen from a canoe from Vierville

(details) 1953, Jean and Germaine Hausermann

(details) 1956

(details) 1970

(details) around 1973

In 1973, visit of the Vandamme

(details) in September 2009, the Pointe du Hoc and the blue pebble beach

The descent before the war. This descent was possible until around 1975

(details) the "décalou" of the Pointe du Hoc around 1920

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From 1980

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(details) 1980

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(details) View of the Hoc point to Grandcamp, around 1996

On the left a bird in flight (E. Vierk)

(details) around 2000

around 1960, View from the Pointe du Hoc towards Vierville, we see the tip of the castle of Englesqueville and the "blue pebble beach" (small bluish gray pebbles, from 30 to 60mm, very regular which are the characteristic of this beach)

(details) around 1975, when the descent was still practicable

(details) The 1675 map, the oldest available, the pointe du Hoc is not noted

(details) Mariette Cards, around 1689

(details) 2 variants of Mariette's handwritten map. The Pointe du Hoc is denoted Pointe de Lequer and a large rock on the gève is called "La Brebis"

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(details) Bellin map, around the 18th century, little detailed

Aerial maps and photos

(details) Cassini's map (mid-18th). Only the tip of the castle of Englesqueville is noted, which is west of the current point of Hoc.

It seems that this tip was not remarkable at that time

details the Veys in 1791, two points are noted: the "pointe du Hog" and further east the tip of the castle of Englesqueville

(details) Map of 1880

(details) US card at 1/12500

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Geological map of Grancamp in Port en Bessin - explanatory legends

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Series of photos taken in 1975 for EDF as part of the studies of a possible nuclear power plant in Englesqueville, a project abandoned since, the site is not favorable from the point of view of sea currents

(details) 1975, A, La Pointe du Hoc

(details) 1975, D, Château d'Englesqueville

(details) 1975, B, Saint Pierre du Mont

(details) 1975, E, Rougefosse

(details) 1975, C, Fourey,

(details) 1975, F, Le Haut Chemin

Text by Arcisse de Caumont on St Pierre du Mont

Below and on the left, excerpts from the "Maritime Normandy"