Captain Roger Wietzel Memorial, near Hermanville
Wietzel was the Captain of the French ship Courbet, an old French cruiser, which without engine or guns and filled with concrete, was towed across the Channel and sunk 1, 100 yards off Sword Beach to act as a Gooseberry block ship. At this spot on 7 June 1944 Wietzel collected some French soil which he later presented to Gen de Gaulle
Picture No
12547960
Media ID
45763925
Size
1493px x 2022px
(936KB)
Credit
© Holt's Battlefield Collection / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Tonie and Valmai Holt - Holts' Battlefield Collection
Date
2008
