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Dark clouds over Chambois in the Falaise Pocket

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It’s often the simplest postcards that reveal the most shocking stories.  This is true of Chambois. First published here 2014 Our postcard shows the old keep or ‘donjon’, once part of a medieval fortress that now houses nothing more ferocious than a loft of lethargic pigeons. The photo and the postcard do not

D-Day, Drop Zone C and remarkable bravery at Sainte-Marie-du-Mont

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Tucked away in the marshy country of the Manche, just 3 ½ miles from an east facing beach, is the village of Saint-Marie-du-Mont. The Mont in question is the slightest hill, raising Notre-Dame church at the heart of the village above occasional floods. It was not a village anyone thought about

A family remembers liberation; Sainte-Mère-Église, 1944

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In the early hours of June 6, 1944, a man knocked loudly on the door of Alexandre Renaud, Mayor of Sainte-Mère-Église. Since the town's occupation by the enemy in 1940 there had been a strict curfew. This late night visit could only mean an emergency. The visitor explained rapidly that a house

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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