by ColinAuthor | May 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
Normandy 70 Final preparations are almost complete for the first of three trips to Normandy in this 70th Anniversary year As usual, there will be a mix of research,, history, meeting Veterans and I suspect that beer, wine, cider & Calvados will also be involved!...
by ColinAuthor | Jan 4, 2014 | Normandy Trips
And so to home… via a brewpub, naturally! An earlyish breakfast saw us off to fill up with some presents & fuel at the local supermarket before heading back to the Chunnel. Whilst, in some ways, we’d not added as much to the tale of “The Men in...
by ColinAuthor | Jan 3, 2014 | Normandy Trips
A medal, a Beach, a Band of Brothers and Azeville Battery’s painted bunkers An eclectic day finished off our last full day in France. As we were right on UTAH breach, I decided to go and take some photos as well as taking a jar full of sand I know it is wrong...
by ColinAuthor | Jan 3, 2014 | M/Sgt Morris Sheppard, Normandy Trips
A PoW’s journey You’ll recall that last year we met Bill Sullivan & his wife, Elizabeth, who, whilst not one of the “MenInTheShed”, gave me (via Morris Sheppard’s son, Jim) lots of information of the time when he was “on the...
by ColinAuthor | Dec 20, 2013 | Normandy Trips
Tilly Book Fair and balloons Tilly Book Fair The “Salon du Livre de la Battaille de Normandie” or “Tilly Book Fair of the Battle of Normandy” is now in it’s fifth year. The “brainchild” of the Tilly 1944 Association and in...
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