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Remembering old friends on D-Day, Normandy

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

Rise like a Phoenix, Vire

With some trepidation we travelled to Vire to match a couple of old postcards picked up as part of a job lot ‘carte postale, Normandie, €10’ from a seaside brocante. Would we have bought them individually? I don’t know. A dark day in history On 6 June 1944 at around 8pm the

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