by maui | Sep 17, 2023 | Dossiers
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) On 28 June 1939 King George VI established the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) for duty with the Royal Air Force (RAF) in time of war. It was mobilised on 28 August 1939 and within the year tens of thousands of women...
by maui | Sep 17, 2023 | Dossiers
US ARMY 2ND INFANTRY DIVISION After training in Northern Ireland and Wales from October 1943 to June 1944, the 2nd Infantry Division crossed the channel to land on Omaha Beach on D plus 1 (7 June 1944) near St. Laurent-sur-Mer. Attacking across the Aure River on 10...
by maui | Sep 17, 2023 | Dossiers
US ARMY 1ST INFANTRY DIVISION The 1st Infantry Division and one regimental combat team from the 29th Infantry Division comprised the first wave of troops that assaulted German Army defenses on Omaha Beach on D-Day.[4][14] The division had to run 300 yards to get to...
by maui | Sep 10, 2023 | Heroes
Edwin Jeffery Edwin Jeffery at D-day monument At Veteran’s Parade Arromanches, June 6th 2014 ( http://www.trblmousehole.co.uk/edwin-jeffery.html...
by maui | Sep 10, 2023 | Heroes
Roy O’Neill “Royston O’Neill was born on the February 10th 1924 in Llangeinor, a village near Bridgend in South Wales, where he grew up. He became an apprentice carpenter at 14. He finally became a carpenter in Bridgend, after the war. At 17 and a...
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