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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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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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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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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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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"Men, dodging under the surrealistic designs of Hitler’s anti-invasion brain trust"- on here's how Robert Capa recalled the Normandy landings https://t.co/MvsolCy5Ec

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A l'ocassion des 75eme anniversaire du petit dessin :)

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Right now.
75 years ago.

Operation Deadstick is on, as the first Horsa glider lands by 'Pegasus' Bridge.

The Battle of France has begun.



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