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A NORTH-EAST company is publishing two 1944 maps of Normandy, that were top secret at the time, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of D-Day. One of the maps features the Pegasus and Horsa Bridges ...
The maps “showed railways, roads, churches, castles, every possible feature that could be visible to an incoming invader and from every angle,” Lamb, now 103, told The Associated Press.
On the Pegasus Bridge cycle, a charity spokesman explained: “Injured soldiers taking part in the Pilgrim Bandits’ gruelling 1500 mile recumbent cycle expedition in New Zealand later in the ...
The Prince of Wales will also play a leading role in the British commemorations. On the morning of June 5, he will be at the Memorial Pegasus, at Ranville-Benouville, to greet British veterans of ...
LONDON (AP) — As a young Women’s Royal Naval Service officer in World War II, Christian Lamb tried to make sure British troops were in exactly the right place when they scrambled onto Normandy ...