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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

November 28, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment

Old and modern

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

Wire Team

November 28, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment

November 28, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment

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

And the Navy…

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

November 28, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment

November 28, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment

November 28, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment

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

MP bikes…

November 28, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment

November 28, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment

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

blue sky..

November 28, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment

line of jeeps…

November 28, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment

shadows…

November 28, 2022 DORSET JOURNAL - D-Day Preparations - WWII-21Century Post a Comment

Looking around

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

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