June 1944
Allied Transit Base
Bayeux became a strategic transit and support centre for Eisenhower's Allied armies.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Bayeux in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Bayeux became a strategic transit and support centre for Eisenhower's Allied armies.
Eisenhower's command relied on Bayeux as an undamaged link between the beaches and the fighting front.
Provenance
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