July 17, 6pm : Feldmarschall Erwin Rommel's Horch staff-car is strafed, 2 kms north of Vimoutiers, leaving him with multiple skull fractures.

► July 17th, with Rommel

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.

August 22, 1944, 10 o'clock: The first American jeeps enter Vimoutiers by the rue d'Argentan. They are led by the Canadians of the Regiment de la Chaudiere (3rd Canadian Infantry Division, 9th regiment) ... and It is told that first friendships were sealed around a jug. It is that the Allies have discovered the cider and this hard drink which is ... Le Calvados !