NormandyWarGuide @NormandyGuide
An online guide to the D-Day sites in Normandy - war diaries - ww2 maps - archive normandywarguide.com Joined March 2014-
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Just added a new guide to the GSGS 4347 maps series including a directory of 280 maps available online for free. If you know any other sources not currently listed let me know! normandywarguide.com/articles/gsgs-…
More details are available on Aircrew Remembered aircrewremembered.com/newman-harry.h…
Sergeant Harry Arthur Newman was shot down on the 15th November 1941. There are mixed reports of it being due to flak and Messerschmitt Bf109s. He now rests at Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes churchyard.
Just added map GSGS4250 10D/3 - Bernaville to the archive normandywarguide.com/archives/map-1…
Pte William "Sid" Wilkins, Ox & Bucks Light Infantry (Airborne). Killed at Escoville on 7 June 1944, aged 22. He rests in the village cemetery where he fell
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#dday 🌹 Sgt Eric Lightowler. The son of my grandad’s sister Edith. He was the pilot of a glider, the first to go down in Normandy on June 6th 1944. He was killed & his body was found on the water. He was only 24. Our hero 🙏🏻💙 #dday. We will never forget you Eric #secondcousin
D-Day, 6 June 1944. Lt David Haig-Thomas, No. 4 Commando, parachuted into Normandy and was killed that same day in an ambush near Bavent, pushing toward the Merville Battery
Added another map to the archive from the GSGS4250 series 9E/4 - Forges normandywarguide.com/archives/map-9…
Just published the 5th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment's October 1944 war diary covering their actions in the area around Nijmegen and Arnhem normandywarguide.com/war-diaries/5t…
Just added another map to the archive GSGS4250 9E/2 - Aumale normandywarguide.com/archives/map-9…
The fourth, F/O R.O. Moen, has no known grave. He's commemorated at the Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede
Three of the four are buried at Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in Normandy: F/Lt T.A. Bugg, F/O J.F. Dewar and F/O E.J. Allen.
Just added the RCAF Pilot Memorial at Le Mesnil-Villement, Normandy. Remembering four Royal Canadian Air Force Typhoon pilots shot down on 12 Aug 1944 while attacking the bridge over the Orne, to block the German retreat from the Falaise pocket normandywarguide.com/place/rcaf-mem…
Unfortunately, the rumours are true. 51st Highland Div. monument Bréville ridge. Stolen! I have no words. #ww2 #Normandy @BattlefieldBen @sommecourt @WW2TV @militaryhistori @AndyAitcheson @almurray @James1940 @Barber1944
Just uploaded the 5th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment's September 1944 war diary which covers a rapid advance from the Somme through Belgium, seizing Scheldt bridges at Termonde, assault crossing of the Albert Canal and moving to Holland normandywarguide.com/war-diaries/5t…
I made the most of the bank holiday and visited All Saints Church at Down Ampney, which has a memorial stained glass window to the men and women of the Royal Air Force, the 1st and 6th Airborne Divisions and Air Despatch Groups R.A.S.C. who took part in operations from Down Ampney, including Normandy on D-Day and Operation Market Garden.
Just uploaded 5th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment August 1944 war diary covering covering their actions across Normandy and Northern France normandywarguide.com/war-diaries/5t…
Just added map GSGS4250 9D/6 - Gamaches to the archive normandywarguide.com/archives/map-9…
Just published 5th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment's July 1944 war diary, covering their time near Les Orailles and the Le Croix Des Landes – Le Lion Vert road normandywarguide.com/war-diaries/5t…
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