Monthly Archives: June 2018

The time to start our return to the ship was drawing nigh and, for me, the prospect of “dinner and a show” was welcome on this dismal and somber day. Sometimes, though, a somber mood can be broken by something …

Memorials Sur la plage. If you are moved by visits to battlefields, if your emotions are stirred by battlefield memorials, or if you feel the shared pain of loss – be it national or familial – on a visit to …

The previous post ended with our group’s stop at the German battery at Longue-sur-Mer about eight kilometers west of Arromanches and 16 kilometers east of Omaha Beach. Once we arrive at the latter, we will have passed from the British …

Just outside the small but interesting D-Day Museum at Arromanches you can see a plaque declaring Port Winston (the name the Allies bestowed on the Mulberry harbour there) “The key of the liberation of Europe.” In some ways this might …

The D-Day beaches. The Allied assault on Normandy that began at about 06:30 on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 spanned a length of coastline that stretched some 80 kilometers from Ouistreham in the east to Saint-Martin-de-Varreville on the west. From east …