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A baptism of fire, on Juno Beach 6 June 1944

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Our postcard photographer standing on Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer beach at the turn of the century could not have foretold the horrors this pretty seaside town would endure in 1944. By June 6 1944 the seafront villas are heavily fortified, a 50mm gun emplacement dominates the shoreline and a vicious web of beach defences stand between

A red jumper & the Major of Saint-Lô: two sides of 1944

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That stub of a tower part of the remains of the Church of Notre Dame Many shattering images of Saint-Lô in 1944 cannot be erased from our memories but one in particular stands out.  It shows a young boy in a grey jumper and long trousers with his arm around his

The lost Canadian soldiers of the Ardenne Abbey

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Just outside Caen, surrounded by fields and very quickly surburban housing, is the Abbey Ardenne.  We know this because of a postcard we found of a nice old doorway.  We matched it late in the spring, not many weeks before an anniversary the Abbey will never forget. The secret garden We parked

Remembering old friends on D-Day, Normandy

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Up on the hill above Arromanches-les-Bains we looked down on the bay that became known as Gold Beach on 6 June 1944. We were matching a postcard of four survivors, soldiers who had arrived on D-Day.  We know the photo was taken shorty after D-Day as the Mulberry Harbours, essential for landing

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