What a privilege to meet and draw Harry Billinge MBE - an extraordinary man | https://t.co/z31Oa9Iw7q |

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Harry Billinge MBE. He was an 18 year old Sapper with the Royal Engineers, who landed on Gold Beach at 0630 on June 6 1944. What an extraordinary man

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This we especially remember & honour the men of the 6th, 8th & 9th Battalions Durham Light Infantry who landed on Gold Beach in Normandy 75 years ago as part of the landings.

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Fw-190 by Keith Burns
Josef "Pips" Priller (27 July 1915 – 20 May 1961) was a German military aviator and wing commander in the Luftwaffe during World War II.

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Like your thread. Good to see RASC contribution to the Campaign and beyond from someone with a 'personal' interest.

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For goodness sake...
take advertising payments please don’t cut off the elderly living alone


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Juno Beach, June 6th - 1944.
This took a while so I'm posting on D-Day +3 😉

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A General Service medal awarded to a hero casualty of the D-Day landings secured the top lot at recent sale - read more here https://t.co/tlyXd0RGs5

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42)..Normandy..up to the road,meet up with company,heard our CO and CSM blasted off motorcycle,truck sunk out of sight.Second night pick up ammunition,head to supply guns at night,plane drops bombs,some lads taken to hospital

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so long ago, thank you Karel De Troyer -right above in the corner and thanks to his fellow soldiers and all of them victims and veterans -

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Footage of the 101st and 82nd Airborne Division in the area of landing beach "Utah", Normandy.

Many paratroopers landed far from their drop zones and were unable to fulfill their objectives on the first day.

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40)extract..Homeward bound,board Troopship arrive River Clyde then inspected by issued new Black Rat sign,now an Independent Support Group,almost Div. size Copy

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Amazing courage and sacrifice. Remembering all the men and women, thank you.

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What happened in the days and weeks after

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Honouring Pearl Witherington, SOE agent parachuted into France in 1943. She led a network of 1,500 Maquis fighters who took on the German army during the D-Day landings and presided over the surrender of 18,000 troops

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One of the American soldiers who camped near Llandeilo before leaving for Normandy on

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Bet you didn't know that that the U.S. Marine Corps was at the invasion of Normandy. Then LtCol Robert O. Bare assisted in planning the Normandy invasion and was attached to British Assault Force J as an observer on DDay.

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