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Caen, before and after the battle of 1944

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This week our match is 73 years out of date.  The early postcards reveal a world now lost. They are matched with photos taken in the summer of 1944, in WW2. The wartime quality of the photography is not sharp, but the story is clear. The battle for Caen lasted just

The war artist, June 1944 in Normandy

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Chateau de Sully, near Bayeux, June 1944 by Anthony Gross First published here 2017 Although photographs remember a moment, an event, war artists see the emotion in a war; how people live within it, the minutiae of daily life as they prepare, wait, fight, suffer and celebrate.  Faced with the vastness of

News from Carentan, Tilly & Caen: Snapshot from a war, 14 June 1944

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Carentan Normandy

First published here 2017 During the Second World War, news, particularly good news was shared quickly across the Allied world.  While each battle has been studied in detail by historians over the years, at the time newspapers reported them hurriedly as steps towards freedom. Reading those old papers today we are for

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

American soldier in Normandy; drawings from 1944

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Victor Alfred Lundy was 21 years old when he was shipped out to Europe, in August 1944.  D-Day and the army had changed his plans from architecture, to the infantry. Enlisting Victor enlisted in the army in December of 1941, the day after the bomb was dropped on Pearl Harbour. He was accepted into

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