May 13, 2023 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment REMEMBRANCE PHOTOS – World War II – DORSET, United Kingdom Another section on this website will be added at a later date, for American and British – Classic and Vintage cars at Viewpoint, Constitution Hill, Poole – at later date.
November 28, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment Remembrance Sunday, 2022 – held at Kingston Lacy House. US 1st Inf Division and US 29th Inf Division ~ (reenactments). In WW2 – the US 1st Infantry Division were based in Dorset, and the US 29th were based in the West Country (arriving in Dorset some weeks before D-Day) – they embarked from Portland, Weymouth and Poole Harbours – together to storm Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
November 28, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment Officer in charge at Kingston Lacy
November 28, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment Can see the famous ‘Big Red 1 patch’ of the US 1st Infantry Division (on the Officer in charge at Kingston Lacy)
November 28, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment checking this later version out…
November 28, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment A little more modern!
November 28, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment Medical supplies – coca cola!
November 28, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment busy chatting ..
November 28, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment Outside The House
November 26, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment assortment of vehicles
November 26, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment ~ preparing for the Silence ~ many others will be standing for the Silence – inside The House
November 26, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment 2 minute silence (1 minute for WW1, and 1 minute for WW2)
November 26, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment 2 minute silence