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Originally Posted by Graham Watts
Thanks Laurent
I found those places on google earth and it certainly would be the place although I had no luck finding Herbouville information on the Atlantikwall site.
Cheers
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Problem is that these V-1 sites were built in woods between villages and rather small, so it is quite classical that the French use one location name, the Germans another and the Allied a third for the same site.
There were 117 V-1 sites built in 43-44 in Seine-Maritime according to a traveler book I have on Normandy (no list included...).
Another book could be useful if you manage to find it and are able to read French: "L'enfer des V 1 en Seine-Maritime durant la seconde guerre mondiale". As far as I remember (i read it years ago, after finding it in a public library now 800 km from where I live), it is describing both V-1 falling near their launching places and Allied bombing raids against these sites, and the effect of both on nearby French villages and population.