April 2013
Utah Beach statue, Lt. Richard Winters
Lt. Richard Winters Statue, Utah beach Offically dedicated to all the Allied leaders who saw action on D-Day and in the Normandy Campaign. The statue is unmistakably one of Lt. Richard Winters. Easy Company, [...]
Arctic Star Medal awarded to sailors of the Arctic convoys
Everyone involved in D Day Tours Normandy is delighted to hear that at long last the British Government has recognised the efforts of the men who sailed the Arctic Convoys during the Second World War. [...]
D Day Landings. Flying Tetrarch Tanks.
D Day Landings. Tetrarch Light Tanks On D Day and before, twenty Tetrarch Light Tanks were deployed by the 6th Airborne Recce Regt in Normandy. They were not very successful; several were destroyed [...]
Video: 360 degree panorama from the Pegasus Bridge
This D Day Tour video is a 360 degree panorama of the Pegasus Bridge, the only bridge over the Caen Canal between the sea and Caen itself. It was vital the allies captured the bridge [...]
February 2013
Memorial to British Airmen. Memorial Britannique, St. Anne – Romagne, 35133 Brittany
I found this memorial quite by chance, only a few miles from our home. It was placed by the people of St. Anne in memory of Pilot Officer James Alexander Downie aged 23 yrs and [...]
December 2012
Battle of the Barents Sea
Seventy years ago today, on 31st December 1942, Allied convoy JW51B, en route to the Kola Inlet in Russia was intercepted by the German Pocket Battleship Lutzow and the Heavy Cruiser Hipper. The attack was [...]