Evidence of man's existence can be traced back to the Neolithic Age, pollen has been discovered from cereals buried in the peat of the Chef du Pont marshes and in Vierville the remains of a dwelling dating from 3000 BC have been excavated....
Around 900AD, on the seas around our coastline, a Viking chief named Vieul Aux Espaulles was caught in a storm. Rou's book recounts how Vieul "being in peril on the sea vowed that he would become a Christian if he escaped the storm"…
Wired for sound and animated this map is centred on the theatre of landing operations in Normandy 6th June 1944. You can access various information such as landing beaches, number of troops, airborne troops, tanks, naval bombardment zones etc.
Chronology
