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D-Day +365 (part 2) – midweek post

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'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

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'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

A rare piece of D-Day history in this sleepy Normandy valley

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Or, how the Noireau river got a little piece of the Mulberry Harbour for a bridge... The Résistance in action In June 1944 a few days after the Allies landed on Normandy’s beaches, a few members of the Résistance quietly met in the small village of Le Pont Grat, in enemy occupied

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

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

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