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Fearing a
German armoured offensive southwest of Caen, the British high command
decided to bomb the important crossroads at Aunay-sur-Odon, in order to
bar the Panzers’ route.
In the early
hours of June 12th, two waves of aircraft raked the high
street and totally destroyed the centre of the village, killing around a
hundred inhabitants.
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Aunay-sur-Odon, just before the war |
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In the night of June 14th-15th,
the rest of Aunay-sur-Odon was reduced to rubble by a second and even
more terrible bombardment. Nothing was left standing, except for the
dangerously unstable church tower, which had to be demolished for
safety’s sake. Fifty more names were added to the death toll which was
already long for a commune of just 1,800 inhabitants |
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… and what was left of it in 1944 |
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