Documents on the war and reconstruction of Vierville

Follow the war in Vierville and the reconstruction of the village through letters, photographs, plans and testimonies.

17 files and collections of the Yves Cordelle fund.

• Letters from a refugee in Vierville to her son in South America

  1939–1940

  Correspondence reproduced under the initials "Mrs. MH" and "JH" in the fund.

• Vierville during the war and at the Liberation: aerial photographs

  1939–1947

• The Resistance in Vierville: notes and documents

• The Landing in Vierville: illustrated story of June 6, 1944

  June 6, 1944

• The castle of Vierville under the Occupation and during the fighting

  1939–1945

• The fighting of the wood of the Château de Vierville: a story of June 7, 1944

  June 7, 1944

• The public buildings of Vierville: destruction and reconstruction

  From 1944

• Houses of the village and hamlets: destruction and reconstruction

  From 1944

• The Vierville waterfront before and after the war destruction

• Streets of the Sea and the Percée: destruction and reconstruction

• Boulevard de Cauvigny, west sector: destruction and reconstruction

• Boulevard de Cauvigny, central-west sector: destruction and reconstruction

• Boulevard de Cauvigny, central-east sector: destruction and reconstruction

• Boulevard de Cauvigny, eastern sector: destruction and reconstruction

• The removal of wrecks in front of Vierville after the war

  1949–1955

  Yves Cordelle's notes indicate that the history of the removal of the wrecks remains imperfectly documented.

• Roads, networks and agricultural land: the reconstruction of Vierville

  After 1944

• The demining of Vierville after the war

  1946–1947

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