It's just to the NE of V-B, on the old D675 V-B/Caen road. You drive under the new A84 motorway and the road immediately starts to climb toward Point 213 (take the first lane on the right to find the Ancienne Route de Caen and 'Les Hauts Ventes' farm where it is believed that Wittmann's Tigers were bivouacked. Back on the D675, climb just a short way up to Point 213 - you're travelling where the 'Desert Rats' were ambushed.
It's well worth getting ahold of the French IGN 1:25,00 map #1513O (Aunay sur Odon & Villers Bocage ).
IGN maps are a bit like our Ordnance Survey - big scale, aimed at walkers. They're not too expensive and can be recognized by their blue paper covers. I'm not sure if you can get them via e-bay or Amazon - I always tend to buy them when I'm 'over there' - all local newsagents ( 'Maison de la Presse' ) sell them.
It's like everything mate , there is always something to see if you know where to look !!
VB is very difficult to orientate or Then and now due to the fact that the place has been completely rebuilt but as Martin says you can go up to Point 213 plus the Ancienne Route de Caen where the Tigers laagered overnight and the junction from which Wittmann began his attack , the 7th Armoured memorial on the D6 Roundabout , the display in the Hotel de Ville and the position where Stan Lockwoods Firely engaged and stopped Wittmans advance plus a few other interesting spots !!
The gates of hell were opened and we accepted the invitation to enter" 26/880 Lance Sgt, Edward Dyke. 26th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers , ( 3rd Tyneside Irish )
1st July 1916
Thought shall be the harder , heart the keener,
Courage the greater as our strength faileth.
Here lies our leader ,in the dust of his greatness.
Who leaves him now , be damned forever.
We who are old now shall not leave this Battle,
But lie at his feet , in the dust with our leader
House Carles at the Battle of Hastings
I well remember ( with considerable embarrassment ) my first visit to Falaise . I was on my way to Le Mans in 1980 and pulled up in the middle of Falaise thinking - 'Where's the Gap ? ' . For that, you need to go to the Trun/St. Lambert/Chambois area which is a few miles away.
In Falaise itself, there used to be a halfway decent, relic-based museum below the Castle. It was rather notorious for allowing no photographs - I don't know if it's still there. The school where the Hitlerjugend allegedly fought to the last man can still be found but again, Falaise town was largely destroyed in WW2 and had to be rebuilt in the 1950s....
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