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Date Posted：06/04/2014 5:26 PMCopy HTML Oddly enough I did not find anything in a search of TAE. Anyway;
The man who prepared France for D-Day It is that time of year again. 70 years is an odd milestone for a big do but as the 90+ year olds will be too frail for the 75th anniversary an extra effort is being made now. It took years of preparation and things were happening before the 6th day of June. Paratroopers were landing from sundown onwards of the 5th (including the actor David Niven). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27682001 4 June 2014 In the run-up to D-Day, a French soldier exiled in London was given the task of telling his compatriots how they should react once the liberation of their country began. On 31 May 1944 Jean-Louis Cremieux-Brilhac sat in his study at 17 Hill Street Mayfair, and typed out the D-Day orders for the people of France. These were the instructions to be read over the French service of the BBC, telling the population how to react once they learned the Allies had landed. The document - four pages of flimsy paper marked "secret", type-written with annotations in pencil - has been in Cremieux-Brilhac's possession ever since. Now aged 97 and living in Paris, he recalls with perfect clarity the excitement of the time........... ............In 1940 he had been captured in France by the advancing Germans and sent to a POW camp. He escaped and made it to Russia, but there he suffered more internment (worse, he says, than under the Germans) because this was still the time of the Nazi-Soviet pact. Eventually when Germany invaded Russia in 1941, Cremieux-Brilhac was released and along with more than 100 other French soldiers taken by Canadian ship from the Arctic port of Archangel to Glasgow. The next day they arrived by train at Euston station in London. There is archive newsreel footage of the party being welcomed by a Free French officer. Cremieux-Brilhac is sadly not identifiable in the crowd, but he does recognise several of his former comrades. Looking back on D-Day, Cremieux-Brilhac remembers the "waves of planes flying over London. There were hundreds of them. It was so impressive. We Free French had no doubt that the landings would succeed."..............> |
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Re：D-Day 70 years on Date Posted：06/04/2014 5:27 PMCopy HTML
WW2 planes fly to Normandy to mark D-Day 70th anniversary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27683528
4 June 2014 A group of World War 2-era aircraft are due to fly to France from southern England later to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Eight DC-3 Dakota planes are flying from the former HMS Daedalus airfield in Hampshire on Wednesday to drop 100 parachutists at Carentan in Normandy. The aircraft saw active service in the war and are now privately owned. The event was organised by a local flying association. One DC-3 is arriving from the United States, while others are coming from Switzerland, Denmark and Hungary. The parachutes to be used in the jump have the same round shape as those used in World War Two - whereas modern designs tend to be rectangular. |
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Re：D-Day 70 years on Date Posted：06/04/2014 6:14 PMCopy HTML  ..God Bless them all..they fought and died for our freedom....The Normandy Invasion: The Story in PicturesTo be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN
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Re：D-Day 70 years on Date Posted：06/06/2014 8:52 PMCopy HTML |
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Re：D-Day 70 years on Date Posted：06/06/2014 8:55 PMCopy HTML |
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Re：D-Day 70 years on Date Posted：06/06/2014 9:07 PMCopy HTML http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20140606_Veterans__visitors_flock_to_Normandy_to_remember_D-Day.html
 THE BEACHES OF NORMANDY REVISITED Fred
Glover, 88, a veteran of Britain's Ninth Parachute Battalion, stands
ramrod straight as he watches a parachute jump just outside Ranville,
France, during D-Day 70th-anniversary events. Ceremonies to mark
Friday's anniversary have drawn thousands of veterans, relatives, and
world leaders to the cemeteries and beaches of Normandy this week.
Story, A8. |
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Re：D-Day 70 years on Date Posted：06/25/2014 11:16 PMCopy HTML and in a totally unrelated bit of history
It's been 30 years since Purple Rain came out. “The truth is like a lion, you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose, it will defend itself.”
St. Augustine
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Re：D-Day 70 years on Date Posted：07/01/2014 11:07 PMCopy HTML
on this day, july 1st, 248 years ago....... Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
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Re：D-Day 70 years on Date Posted：06/06/2016 6:42 AMCopy HTML
D-Day planner aged 96 first woman to be awarded Legion d'honneur
http://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/d-day-planner-aged-96-first-woman-to-be-awarded-legion-dhonneur-11364064713145 27 May 2016,  The first woman to be awarded the Legion d'honneur by the French ambassador in London has spoken of her joy at making it to the ceremony. Marsie Taylor, 96, who helped plan the D-Day landings, was given France's highest distinction at a ceremony with 18 other veterans at the French Ambassador's Residence in London on Friday. She said, laughing: "When I knew I'd got this award I thought 'I must try and stay alive until then'. "And then the time got a bit nearer and I thought 'I mustn't fall over or do anything awful'." Londoner Mrs Taylor, a rating in the Women's Royal Naval Service who helped plan the Normandy landings 72 years ago, said receiving the medal was a "terrific honour"...........> |
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Re：D-Day 70 years on Date Posted：05/29/2019 10:08 PMCopy HTML Bump! Time for a re-run; |
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