Fontaine-Henry
Villons-les-Buissons
B16 Airfield.
Norwegian Monument.
Hell's Corner
In the evening of D-day the North Nova Scotia Highlanders stopped in Villons-les-Buissons.
On June 7th at 5.00 am, the Canadians moved on with reconnaissance tanks at the head of the column.
The 9th Brigade was assigned to capture Carpiquet Airfield.
The Canadians overran the Germans; they fought house to house and pushed them back out of Les Buissons. Then they settled down toward Buron.
The onsite combat lasted 4 weeks; they were under the mortar shelling of the 12th SS- 26th Regiment commanded by Hubert Meyer. Villons was also the departure position to assault Buron then was renamed Hell's Corner.