On June 7th
1944, shortly after 2 pm, two waves of American bombers dropped their
deadly loads on the town of L’Aigle, with a view to destroying a section
of the 24b trunk road and thereby preventing German reinforcements from
moving up to the Calvados coast.
More than 120
bodies were pulled from the ruins. Even the hospital was not spared –
the bombing raid killed the radiologist and a number of nurses and
patients – so a convent school had to be been turned into a makeshift
infirmary where the many casualties could be treated.
