La Meauffe
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La Meauffe (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
History
On the 11 and 12 July 1944, the village was attacked by the 35th Infantry Division (United States) while defended by the German 352 ID and units of the 266 ID. The fighting, violent, started the 11th and ended the 12th, cost the lives of 19 US soldiers, wounding 170, with 25 missing. The road D54, leading to La Meauffe was renamed the Death Valley Road by the US soldiers.[2]
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Funeral chapel, with bullet and shrapnel holes.
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Stone memorial for the 35th ID.
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Shrapnel holes on a headstone.
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Stone of the Calvary cross, marked by the fighting.
Heraldry
| The arms of La Meauffe are blazoned : Vert, a fess wavy argent between 2 fleurs de lys Or, and a salmon argent.
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See also
References
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- ↑ La Meauffe en 1944, sur dday-overlord.com
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