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CROSS CHANNEL ATTACK excerpt - Allied victory on D-Day (1977 words) |
 | Elements of the 352d Division, in fact, were still on the Meuvaines ridge after midday. |
| The failure of the Germans to exploit the weakness of [U.S.] V Corps was the result quite simply of their own greater weakness. |
| General Kraiss concluded (apparently for the first time) that the Allies were planning a two-pronged attack on Bayeux from bridgeheads at St. Laurent and Meuvaines. |
| VICTORY IN THE WEST Gold beach excerpt (3433 words) |
| After capturing a machine-gun post at Meuvaines they by-passed le Hamel and advanced westwards towards Buhot and an enemy position, at Puits d'Herode, which covered Arromanches and the nearby shores from the south. |
| Though troops on the beach east of les Roquettes were less exposed to fire from le Hamel the breaching teams were still having casualties in clearing two exits to the coast road. |
| On the left of the 56th Brigade, the 151st had moved forward in two groups supported by the 90th Field Regiment, R.A. Starting from near Meuvaines the right-hand group, led by the 9th Durham Light Infantry, took roughly the line of the Crépon-Bayeux road. |
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