D Day 75th Anniversary

6th June 2019

Stamps to mark the occasion

[url=https://www.chelsea-pensioners.co.uk/bill-fitzgeralds-story]Bill Fitzgerald story

https://www.chelsea-pensioners.co.uk/dday75?gclid=CjwKCAjw583nBRBwEiwA7MKvoEQ1p2jC4swQ1YFnZksLGMrWUhvN27cYuHpWI3uy4oo4u59hA6A5nRoCA2sQAvD_BwE

Fantastic stories by those men.

Had the privilege of spending a couple of hours in some CP's company. Marvelous gentlemen

German troops surrender to US soldiers on June 6, 1944Credit: EPA

More photos here

caught the Friday morning ferry from P/Mouth to Caen , jeeps trucks and all manner of ex WW11 stuff . Great spectating , really enjoyed it .

Heros one and all,

a wonderful thing I've bought to remember our soldiers, I'm not a smoker but, a lighter is a handy thing to have for countless needs, to light a fire, candle, to offer a smoker a light, to burn off a loose thread, So I keep this in my pocket all the time and its trench art, each time i use it, I think of the trenches, the men in the trenches and the debt we owe them, Its a lighter made from shell cases, a usable item and its steeped in history,

World War Two landmarks will be protected by the government to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Six replica landing craft, nine sunken tanks, two armoured bulldozers and parts of Mulberry harbours in Dorset, Devon and West Sussex will be listed.

D-Day, which took place on 6 June 1944, was the largest combined land, air and naval operation in history.

Historic England said it was vital to protect the structures "as a memorial for future generations".




https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-48478849

How you can help.




https://www.rafbf.org/d-day-campaign-2019-2

In Honour of our D day Veterans

Percy Hobart

Hobart's Funnies: The unusual tanks of D-Day
Major General Percy Hobart helped design modified tanks that formed part of the D-Day assault.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-48489531/percy-hobart-s-funnies-the-man-behind-the-the-unusual-tanks-of-d-day

Footage shows soldiers leaving for D-Day
Thousands of soldiers left from the Helford River in Cornwall for the invasion in northern France.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cornwall-47525635/footage-emerges-of-soldiers-leaving-for-d-day-from-cornwall

I watched the BBC broadcast of the D Day 75 year celebrations earlier today.

It’s made me think of my dear old Dad who passed away in 1987.
He never spoke of the war when I was growing up,.
When my Mum died, I spent a bit more time with him, and he began to relate his wartime experiences.
He was in The Royal Army Medical Corps and was part of the D Day Landings.
He was on front line duties and the medics job was to tend to the wounded, dying and dead.
He followed the D Day advance right through to Berlin.
I can’t believe the horrors he would have seen.
I shall have a few scoops tonight and toast my Dad and all the brave people who took part in this historic event which decisively lead to the end of the war.

Thanks for that Mrs A

At the BBC D Day Concert earlier today, Sheridan Smith did a wonderful rendition of ‘We’ll Meet Again’, she sounded remarkably like Vera Lynn.

Bletchley Park and D-Day

Sand sculpture at St Anne’s beach in Lytham of troops disembarking from a landing craft during 6 June 1944 D-Day invasion of the beaches of Normandy

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.