Cintheaux, Gaumesnil and Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil, three otherwise obscure small hamlets in Normandy located alongside the Route Nationale 158 approximately sixteen kilometres south of the city of Caen, would be relatively insignificant locations in the history of the Second World War, were it not for the events that would take place there on August 8th 1944 during … Continue reading Cintheaux / Gaumesnil / Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil