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...
by ColinAuthor | Dec 17, 2013 | 1st Lt FT Gillespie, Major Ray Elledge Jnr, Normandy Trips
Presentations and P47s in Normandy With Peter Findlay So, as is usual on these trips, we got up in the morning & immediately amended the plans that we had for the day! The reason for this was that Peter Findlay, one of our hosts, was being honoured with the...
by ColinAuthor | Nov 4, 2013 | Normandy Trips
Operation BLUECOAT, Sainte-Mère-Église and UTAH Beach Following Operation BLUECOAT In the past, whenever we’ve visited Normandy and followed the tour of Opertion BLUECOAT laid out in the back of Ian Daglish’s book on the subject, we’ve always started...
by ColinAuthor | Aug 29, 2013 | Normandy Trips
Bocage, Hill 226 and St Charles de Percy Bocage bagging When reading & talking about the post D-Day fighting one word crops up time and again: “Bocage”. So what was “Bocage” or “The Hedgerow Country” as Americans called it? A...
by ColinAuthor | Aug 1, 2013 | Normandy Trips
Operation EPSOM & Hill 112 Operation EPSOM revisited So, waking up to a dull & overcast morning (as 5th June was, last year), we set off to follow one of the Tours in the BattleZone Normandy book on Operation EPSOM written by Lloyd Clark. Operation EPSOM was...
by ColinAuthor | Jun 13, 2013 | Normandy Trips
Rouen to Operation GOODWOOD Rouen Leaving Patrick and the brewery, we headed down into Rouen itself for a look around as we’d been through it on a number of occasions without taking any time out for a good sightseeing. So having parked up without too much...
by ColinAuthor | Jun 4, 2013 | Normandy Trips
England to Rouen Normandy, here we come… In which our heroes set out from England, go under the sea & spot the Atlantic Wall on their way south to end with a well-earned beer or three! p bright & early – the restaurant was supposed to be open from 7, but...
by ColinAuthor | Jun 4, 2013 | Normandy Trips
Heading South And they’re off! Normandy 2013 here we come… Up bright and early (well, one of us was!) and load up the car… Yes, there are only two of us going! Then on to the Motorway & heading south, with music from our past sounding clear over...
by ColinAuthor | Jun 4, 2013 | Normandy Trips
Black Country brewpubs Black Country brewpubs tour So, the great plan was to visit a number of Black Country Brewpubs to set ourelves up for the coming week and a bit in Normandy… Public transport when it works, works really well… unfortunately, it’s...
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