The Coudehard-Montormel Memorial (mémorial de Coudehard-Montormel or mémorial de Montormel) is a historical museum in Mont-Ormel in France, dedicated to the battle of the Falaise pocket, the last episode in the battle of Normandy.[1] [2] It is sited on the summit of Hill 262, where the pocket was officially closed on 21 August 1944, with two sites – an open-air monument at the hill's summit (overlooking the vallée de la Dives and the plain where the last phases of the battle played out), which was inaugurated in 1965 on the battle's twentieth anniversary, and the museum itself, in the side of the hill, opened in 1994 on the battle's fiftieth anniversary.[3]

In the foreground tree-covered hills rising to the left and right frame a view over a valley. A tank and the edge of a building are on the rightmost hill. A flat plain of fields, trees and hedgerows fills the background, with a small hamlet visible in the middle-distance.
View from the Mont Ormel ridge overlooking the Dives River valley towards Trun and Chambois—in August 1944, the site of the Falaise pocket. The Mémorial de Coudehard–Montormel (right) stands on Point 262N.

References

  1. ↑ "Memorial de Montormel". Normandy War guide.
  2. ↑ "Mémorial de Montormel MONT-ORMEL : Normandy Tourism". Normandy Tourism, France.
  3. ↑ "Memorial de Montormel - Mont-Ormel - TracesOfWar.com". www.tracesofwar.com.

48°50′15″N 0°08′32″E / 48.83750°N 0.14222°E / 48.83750; 0.14222

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