In brief
Customer-built Brecourt Manor terrain, with the D-Day history behind Easy Company’s 6 June 1944 action and a link to the Battle Honours 3D Normandy model.These customer photographs show the Battle Honours 3D Brecourt Manor brought to life on a finished Normandy table. The stone buildings, enclosed grounds and surrounding roads make the manor a strong centrepiece for D-Day scenarios and wider 1944 Normandy games.
Brecourt Manor and D-Day
Brécourt Manor became closely associated with one of the best-known small-unit actions of D-Day. On 6 June 1944, Lieutenant Richard Winters and men of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division attacked a German artillery position near the manor. Four 105 mm guns threatening the Utah Beach landings were knocked out.
The gun positions were in the surrounding field system rather than inside the manor itself. The manor and nearby buildings nevertheless form part of the setting for the action and provide a useful headquarters and command focal point for a Normandy tabletop.
A Normandy centrepiece for the tabletop
The Battle Honours 3D model is based on the distinctive manor complex and is designed as a substantial terrain piece rather than a simple backdrop. The removable roof and two interior floors allow the building to be used during play as well as forming a recognisable visual centre to the table.
Build the Brecourt Manor battlefield
The model is available from Battle Honours 3D for WWII Normandy wargaming and dioramas.
View Brecourt Manor - D-Day Normandy Terrain
For anyone recreating Easy Company's action, the manor works best as part of the wider battlefield rather than as the gun position itself. Hedgerows, lanes, fields and separate artillery positions help represent the terrain that shaped the assault.