Chateau de Creullet

 castle, interesting place, historic landmark

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery landed with his HQ staff in Normandy shortly after D-day and occupied the Chateau Creully grounds, a Parisian summer residence. The British had moved quickly inland on D-day over running the chateau's German occupants in a short and decisive fire fight in the garden woods to the right. The chateau became the VIP overnight guest house. Montgomery preferred to live in his truck caravan captured from a German general in North Africa. His van was parked along the gravel roadway under the three trees to the left of the chateau. The frontline was two miles south. Winston Churchill and King George V visited Montgomery here within two weeks of the landings. The English newspaper reporters, accompanying the king, were so explicit about Montgomery's location that German officers in Lisbon reading the English papers passed the information back through channels bringing German artillery fire down on the chateau grounds. Montgomery's HQ moved to Blay, south of Bayeux. Thereafter he saw few distracting visitors. The chateau is a summer residence once again and can be visited with private arrangements. Close by is the Creully Castle with its dominating tower from where Edward R. Morrow and Howard Marshall broadcast the battle news back to the States and the UK, respectively.