Next to the statue.

A wooden-framed interpretive information panel presents historical text in both French and English, along with period photographs and a map highlighting locations associated with the D-Day operations and the impact of the Allied airborne landings in the area. It describes the presence of the U.S. Ninth Air Force, C-47 aircraft, and gliders, and the construction of temporary airfields, while also recounting the destruction of the village during the Normandy campaign.

PARTAGER L'HISTOIRE ET LA MÉMOIRE EN TOUTE LIBERTÉ

SHARE HISTORY AND MEMORY IN TOTAL FREEDOM

Ici, à Picauville, le corps darmée de la 9ème Air Force a marqué de son empreinte ce village, par le nombre de C-47 et de planeurs qui se sont écrasés, ainsi que par la construction dun des trois aérodromes, implantés sur notre territoire. Picauville, cest aussi la destruction du village suite aux bombardements Alliés. Le témoignage qui vous est livré vous montrera dune part la prouesse technique, et dautre part la douleur de la destruction du village.

The men of the 9th Airborne left their imprints here in Picauville due to the numerous gliders and C-47 planes that crashed in the surrounding meadows as well as the construction of one of three airfields which were built in this sector. Picauville, its also about the destruction of a village by the Allied bombings.

The accounts that you are about to hear will show on one hand, the technical feats and on the other hand, the grief of a villages destruction.