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| Ferry from Poole to Cherbourg |
This year's battlefield tour couldn't really be anything else than Normandy. It's going to be the 80th anniversary in June 2024 and we thought we'd get in on the act before the crowds arrived.
Day One: A tour of the Operation Biting
battlefield North of Le Havre. With stops beforehand at the artist, Rex Whistler’s grave near Caen and the Le Havre liberation memorial Churchill tank. We toured the areas of the raid’s DZ and the post raid German concrete defences as well as taking a look at the para’s escape route down the side of the cliff, before they were evacuated by the navy. The day ended with us visiting the Dollmand Battery on the cliffs above Le Havre and hunting down the graves of the two Operation Biting casualties and that of a brave French pilot who died tackling a V1 over Kent.
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| Rex Whistler - his famous art work in the Tate restaurant has today been cancelled out by the likes of Diane Abbot MP as it features images of slaves. |
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A Churchill tank marks the Liberation of Le Havre
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| Phare d'Antifer - near Bruneval |
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| The cliffs at Bruneval |
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2/3 scale Infantry Assault Craft as used to rescue the raiders
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Battery Dollmand in Le Havre
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| The two paras killed on Operation Biting |
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| Jean Maridor, a French Spitfire pilot, who died saving an English school from a V1 bomb |
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| Jean Maridor |
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