Bravery, betrayal and the SAS; Château de Montfort, Remilly-sur-Lozon

- February 28, 2025March 8, 2025

First published February 2015 Ever wanted some peace and quiet? Remilly-sur-Lozon in the Manche has a wiki entry that simply states ‘Remilly-sur-Lozon is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.’ No paragraphs of history reaching back to William the Conqueror, no D-Day memories. Just a note to say ‘yes it exists’. Can anywhere in Normandy really be that

The disappearing war criminal of Château de Grangues

Calvados
WW2

- June 30, 2020December 2, 2025

First published June 2018 Our postcard is impossible to match as this is a private residence, however the story of the Château de Grangues does not need a matching photograph, just to be remembered. The Château is set discretely back from the road in parkland, just a few kilometres from the seaside

WW2 photo match – bombing the Andaines forest in 1944

Orne
WW2

- June 25, 2018May 2, 2026

This is a photograph of a A-20G bomber of the 645th Bombardment Squadron, 410th Bombardment Group, 97th Combat Bombardment Wing, IX Bomber Command releasing its bomb load over the Andaines forest, in the Orne. During WW2 the forest hid fuel and ammunition stores for the German 7th Army. Allies bombed the

D-Day +365 (part 2) – midweek post

- November 15, 2017November 8, 2017

'Hop-Scotch on Omaha' YANK magazine, 8 July 1945 - the ships in the distance are D-Day wrecks First printed in Yanks magazine on 8 July 1945, this is part 2 of a visit to Omaha and Utah Normandy beaches just one year after D-Day 6 June 1944. In part one we heard

D-Day +365 (part 1) – midweek post

- November 8, 2017February 16, 2018

'Now Utah beach is a quiet expanse of peaceful and monotonous sand. An abandoned, crippled landing craft, baking in the sun, is an invasion souvenir.' YANK magazine, 8 July 1945 First printed in Yanks magazine on 8 July 1945, this is part 1 of a visit to Omaha and Utah Normandy beaches

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