... 7h50 : "36 raiders B26 bombers drop on Vimoutiers 29 tons of H.P bombs with excellent results - A.O.S. report " ...

A bombardment "ordered by mistake" : "Within a few minutes, the historical town is  levelled. Dismayed, Vimonasteriens raise their 220 dead, attend the injured, and look at their houses burning ..." all the shops totally destroyed,  stocks are annihilated ... the statue of Marie Harel is beheaded, on the market place, the Church stands lonely.

◄The hospital is destroyed, aid is organized and the ►château de Vimer is the makeshift hospital for severely wounded persons.

One cannot live any more in the town. The population takes refuge in farms, cattle sheds, caves ... for the whole summer ...

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In the morning of August 22, silence … roads and paths strewn with carcasses of vehicles, materials, bodies, insupportable odors … collapsed walls, torn off hedges, uprooted apple trees…: From these few km2, many succeeded in escaping, but more than 11.000 men found death, as well as 6.000 horses.