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D Day-1..Hundreds of Landing Craft await in British ports for the go ahead.
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D Day-1..Town Class Light Cruiser HMS Belfast pictured as she departs Scapa Flow for Normandy on June 2nd,she was the flagship of bombardment 'Force E',supporting troops landing at Gold and Juno beaches,she spent 33 days supporting the landings and in the process fired over 4,000 6inch and 1,000 4inch shells.
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LST-1 Class Landing Ships pictured loading equipment at Brixham Harbour prior to D Day,June 1st 1944.
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D Day...A wounded Army Ranger is hoisted aboard New York Class Dreadnought Battleship USS Texas for medical treatment,Texas provided artillery support on Omaha beach and Pointe du Hoc.
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An original colour shot of US Troops embarked in Assault Craft prior to D Day,1944.
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Many thanks Brian, some interesting photos there.
Just been sent a link to a YouTube video produced for the National Geographic Channel called Drain the Ocean WWII and there is some interesting footage of the D Day beaches at 30 minutes as well as other items about Pearl Harbour, sinking the Bismark, etc. if you want to view it from the start here


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FROM NAVY NEWS

The guardians of the nation’s war dead have offered to help veterans and families pay their virtual respects to D-Day heroes next month.

The pandemic lockdown has ruled out the annual pilgrimage to the Normandy beaches and key sites, as well as the many memorials and cemeteries which pepper towns and villages across the region.

Instead, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission has offered to help, with its gardeners placing tributes bearing the words ‘Their Name Liveth For Evermore’ on the appropriate gravestones at the request of families.

Requests can be submitted online, alongside a message to be displayed on the commission’s digital Wall of Remembrance.

Since social distancing and travel restrictions were brought in place, it has not been possible for most people to visit CWGC’s war cemeteries and memorials abroad. However, more than a thousand digital tributes have already been shared with us online since then, showing that even when times are hard today, we can still remember the sacrifices of yesterday.

“When we welcomed thousands of veterans and visitors to Normandy for the 75th anniversary of D-Day we couldn’t have imagined how different things would be just one year later. While it is sad that we cannot host any large gatherings this summer to pay respect in person, we can still pause and remember,” said Xavier Puppinck, CWGC’s France area director.

To post a message to the digital wall of remembrance or request a tribute be placed in Normandy, visit: https://www.cwgc.org/share-your-tribute

Two dozen major Royal Navy vessels were lost in Operation Overlord, as well as numerous smaller vessels – notably landing craft – while Royal Marines paid a heavy price for storming Hitler’s Fortress Europe.

Most of the Senior Service dead are commemorated on the national memorials in Portsmouth, Chatham and Plymouth (there are around 100 casualties from D-Day operations alone on the monument in Portsmouth).

An estimated 470 sailors and Royal Marines are commemorated in Normandy, a fraction of more than 22,000 Commonwealth war dead buried across 18 official CWGC cemeteries throughout the region, although many more graves can be found in churchyards and village cemeteries. In addition, the Bayeux Memorial commemorates 1,800 men and women of the Commonwealth land forces who fell during Operation Overlord and have no known grave


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HARRY BILLINGE VISITS NORMANDY MEMORIAL

Yesterday, finally, the first organised visit by veterans to the magnificent memorial to the 22,442 British troops who fell in the Battle of Normandy took place and the eight veterans who made the journey sought out the names of comrades they knew
Among the veterans was 96-year-old Harry Billinge, from St Austell, Cornwall, who single-handedly raised more than £40,000 for the memorial, partly with his collection tin in Par market, and inspired many others to donate tens of thousands more.
Continues, with photos, at - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... visit.html
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https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status ... 0187006976
https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status ... 5059107848
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A real character , wellloved by all who know him here in the West Country , always a smile and a tear for his friends who never returned .

A group from the Plymouth Federation of Ex Service Associations went over recently and were moved by Memorial and the setting .

BZ to all who were involved in the building of this fitting memorial .
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