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Where is Colbert Marie? The Caen prison massacre of 6 June 1944

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First published 2016/05/14 We discovered this moment in Caen WW2 history reading the marvelous magazine Patrimone Normand ‘Normandy Heritage’ who have very kindly allowed us to use some of their photographs. Caen in the spring of 1944 One spring evening in 1944 Colbert Marie, age 17, left his boxing club with friends the

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

Vernon, the town that liberated itself in 1944 Normandy

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Vintage postcard showing the mill at Vernon in Normandy France

As we stood on the latest Vernon bridge (there have been many) in Eure, we matched our postcard with no idea of the dramas this idyllic scene had witnessed.  An online search revealed a vast library of WW2 pictures of soldiers.  Then we discovered just a suggestion of a lesser

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