How the ‘Corridor of Death’ Saved the D-Day Invasion

Moissy is no more than a hamlet on a road to nowhere in Normandy. At a barely visible turn-off, easily overlooked, there’s a small hand-painted sign, dark blue lettering on the ground the color of dried blood, that reads: Août 1944, Couloir de la Mort.

Corridor of Death?

It’s only natural that this week, on the eightieth anniversary of D-Day, the vast operation that led to the liberation of Western Europe in 1944, attention is focused on the ceremonies, as it usually is, on the first precarious days of the landings on the beaches of Normandy.

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