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‘To Caen’ – can you help us identify this 1944 location?

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This sad little postcard was 1 euro at the Honfleur outdoor flea market just a few months ago. All we can be certain of is that one of the signs says 'Caen' and the other 'No Entry'.  Judging by the desolation this is Normandy in 1944. Can you help? We would love to

The widow and the battle for Caen

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 This simple postcard of an old church took us to the outskirts of a quiet village near Caen and into the centre of a war. Inside are the church sit pews from the 8th century and along the walls are paintings from the 13th. Perhaps the survival of these blessed remnants

Vernon, the town that liberated itself in 1944 Normandy

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Vintage postcard showing the mill at Vernon in Normandy France

As we stood on the latest Vernon bridge (there have been many) in Eure, we matched our postcard with no idea of the dramas this idyllic scene had witnessed.  An online search revealed a vast library of WW2 pictures of soldiers.  Then we discovered just a suggestion of a lesser

Rise like a Phoenix, Vire

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With some trepidation we travelled to Vire to match a couple of old postcards picked up as part of a job lot ‘carte postale, Normandie, €10’ from a seaside brocante. Would we have bought them individually? I don’t know. A dark day in history On 6 June 1944 at around 8pm the

A simple heart at Pont-l’Évêque

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The serious innocence in a young girl's face on an ancient postcard reminded us of poor disregarded Félicité in Flaubert's short story 'A simple heart' or 'Le coeur simple': "For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Évêque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Félicité. For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did

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