M. Leguerney, a resistant, was machine-gunned in his car in the Joué du Plain. Shot on 27 April, he died on 5 May and was buried on the 9th at Francheville. Parachute drops took place generally near Brûlevain wood towards Rânes, ground with the code name Levite Ouest 136, and also in the valley near the Château de la Motte at Joué du Plain.At Sentilly, aircraft landed and took off straight away after collecting or dropping off a passenger, who quickly vanished into the darkness. These operations never took place in Ecouché proper, but always in the nearby countryside. The bombing of Écouché-6 June 1944 On 6 June, Ecouché was bombed by two consecutive formations of planes at high altitude: in less than a minute, more than a fifteen percent of the town was destroyed. A third formation flew on to bomb nearby Argentan. Rescue teams, mobilized by municipality and civil defense organizations, recovered the bodies and took them to the church of Notre Dame where there were kept overnight. This bombing destroyed several businesses: two hotels, one garage, and three grocery stores. The boys’ school was leveled and the railway station was badly damaged; the tree allies of the fairground had their treetops lopped and blown to bits. The target for the bombers, the railroad tracks, was undamaged. A second bombing in July 1944 destroyed a block of houses at the end of rue Notre Dame near the main road, consisting of some businesses and the post office ; there were no victims as the inhabitants had vacated their dwellings. Amidst all these sufferings, three stories could be mentioned: The Trévin family of the main hotel in town, destroyed on 6 June. Buried under the rubble were : Madame Trévin and her daughter Jeanne. On the same day at Caen, their son was killed by the Germans, for suspected Résistance activity. The Daulny family were cobblers and shoe merchants. The father, mother, one young son, an employee, the grandfather, the grandmother and an aunt were buried in the rubble of the house, and when the two sons came back from Germany, where they had been sent to work by the Germans, they found only ruins and wooden crosses in the cemetery. M. Claude Beauchef, prisoner of war, on his return found neither his wife, nor his baby, nor his business premises. In total, 356 people from 118 families were