Aerial view of the Clécy reilway viaduct under air attack.

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The viaduct carried the Caen-Flers line over the Orne was bombed several times but never cut until the 12th of August, just three days before Allied troops captured the area. A bomb hit the apex of the arch over the road and it collapsed onto the road below.