An online guide to the D-Day sites in Normandy - war diaries - ww2 maps - archive
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Just added another map from the GSGS4250 series to the archive, this time 8G/3 - Mortagne
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Just added the 8th Infantry Brigade June 1944 War Diary covering D-Day and their actions in Normandy
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Just added another map from the GSGS4250 series to the archive, this time 7G/4 - Alencon
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Just added 4th Bn County of London Yeomanry April and May 1944 war diaries
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Just added another map to the archive from the GSGS4250 series, this time 7G/3 - Ambrieres
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Just posted the latest project update, a short one this week covering the new maps and war diaries added to the site.
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Just added 21st Beach Recovery Section REME December 1944 War Diary completing WO 171/2961 which covers from June to December
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Just added another map to the archive from the GSGS4250 series, this time continuing the push inland with 6G/4 - Landivy
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Just added the 21st Beach Recovery Section REME November 1944 War Diary
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Just added another map from the GSGS4250 series to the archive, this time 6G/3 - Antrain
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Just added the 21st Beach Recovery Section REME October 1944 war diary covering the units actions in France and Belgium
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Just added another GSGS4250 map to the archive, 5G/4 - Combourg
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Also added the 4th Bn County of London Yeomanry Light Aid Detachment July 1944 war diary covering vehicle maintenance and recovery support during the fighting around Caen
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Just added the 4th Bn County of London Yeomanry July 1944 War Diary covering armoured combat southeast of Caen, centred on Bras, Verrieres, and Ifs.
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Just added map GSGS4250 5G/3 - Dinan to the archive
(It's a mirror of the map from the US Archive, but now georeferenced, ready to be overlayed on modern mapping)
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Just published the latest project update with details on the GSGS4250 map series digitisation progress and latest war diaries
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Just uploaded the 21st Beach Recovery Section REME July 1944 war diary
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Just posted the latest project update with a guide to Sainte-Mère-Église, a memorial at Buron and the beginning of the 21st Beach Recovery Section's war diaries
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Just added the 21st Beach Recovery Section REME's June 1944 war diary
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L/Cpl Fred Greenhalgh was thrown from Glider No. 3 during the coup de main assault on Pegasus Bridge. He drowned in a nearby pond, becoming the first Allied fatality of D-Day
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Stopped at Carentan earlier today, while there took the opportunity for a few then and now pics
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Just published another map of the GSGS4250 series, this time 10E/3 - Crevecoeur-le-Grand
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Just added the January to May 1944 war diaries for the 5th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Completing their diaries for 1944
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Just published the latest project update "Hankley Common, War Diaries, Site facelift and Two New Maps"
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Just uploaded the 5th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment's November 1944 war diary covering defensive operations and patrolling in the Nijmegen bridgehead, followed by rest and reorganisation in Belgium.
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Just added a new map to the archive GSGS4250 10D/5 - Molliens - Vidame
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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!
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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.
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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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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
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Added another map to the archive from the GSGS4250 series 9E/4 - Forges
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Just published the 5th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment's October 1944 war diary covering their actions in the area around Nijmegen and Arnhem
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The fourth, F/O R.O. Moen, has no known grave. He's commemorated at the Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede
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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.
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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
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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
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