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There are lots of places around the south coast with, shall we say, somewhat tenuous links to D-Day, Eisenhower, Monty or Churchill. Droxford Railway Station does at least have a
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Something that's been nagging at my brain recently is the codename Juno, used for the Canadian sector on D-Day. Are the stories behind its origins actually true? But more especially,
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People seem to like this aerial photo, so here's a little bit more to follow it. Not long after, more photos were taken on the beach itself showing the immediate
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I found this uncredited image in 'Looking Down on War: The Normandy Invasion' by the late Colonel Roy Stanley, USAF, the other day. It's got some great photos of D-Day
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This question comes up quite often amongst amphibious aficionados. The correct answer is that we won't ever know, naturally. The other correct answer is no, they wouldn't have made much
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#OTD in 1945, Operation Sankey, an amphibious landing on the small island of Cheduba in Burma (now Munaung in Myanmar) took place. It is notable for using an otherwise little
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If you've been gripped by my series of threads on the Royal Navy Landing Craft Assault that conveyed the US Rangers to Pointe du Hoc on D-Day, it's worth looking
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Nice little thread on the perils of German memoirs. It reminds me of an account from another senior German that I looked into earlier this year – the capture of
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As we're back in lockdown, here's a chart for you all. Think you know your Normandy beaches? There were far more important names out at sea. In answer to some
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The holidays give me time to add a little more to the Pont du Hoc threads from earlier this year. Having covered the embarkation and what was meant to happen,
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Starting 2021 off in style with some concrete spotting on Southampton Common. Second World War #EmbarkingtheDDayArmada military concrete, since covered with tarmac twice. Also clearly visible is a typical passing
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This popped up on farcebook this morning. No provenance, no explanation as to how it comes from MTB 25 (which is incorrectly recorded as a Vosper in the description) and
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