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Cedar Valley Road, Gold Beach, Oregon.
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Cedar Valley Road, Gold Beach, Oregon.
A British Sherman Firefly makes its advance near Gold Beach the day after the Normandy Landings - Normandy, France, 7th June 1944. CREDIT : Normandie Archives
Martin Freeman begins the D-Day 80 service by reading the memories of veteran Joe Mines
Joe Mines, 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment, landed here on Gold Beach 80 years ago today. He joins us and allowed me to share these memories with you: “I've never been back here, for 80 years. I’ve often thought “What do I go back for?” After all the terrible things I’ve seen. Like a picture book, up there, I can visualise everything. I landed on June the 6th 1944 at a place called Vers Sur Mer. The Germans pulled back, so it allowed us to clear the mines on the beach.That was the 1st job I got, clearing mines. All over the place they were. Joe Mines clearing mines. One of our fellas trod on one and blew his leg off. The whole leg went. War is brutal. Back when I signed up, I met a fella on the train. I went to Normandy with him. But he got killed within about an hour of landing here. He was only young. I was 19 when I landed, but I was still a boy. I don’t care what people say. I wasn’t a man. I was a boy. And I didn’t have any idea of war and killing. I was lucky. Yeah, I had lots and lots of luck. So why would I come back? Well, this is the last and only opportunity for me.The last there will ever be. And it’s because of the lads. I want to pay my respects to those who didn’t make it. May they rest in peace. “
Un Sherman Firefly de la 22nd Armoured Brigade, 7th Armoured Division débarque d'un LST (Landing Ship Tank) sur Gold Beach – Opération Overlord – Calvados – Normandie – 7 juin 1944
Photographe : Sergent Laing - No. 5 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit
©Imperial War Museums - B 5130
©Colorisation de RJM
You know the urge to write a romantasy series set in a small town in the US? Yeah, I had that urge at the age of 17. The town is Gold Beach, Oregon. The story is about witches, Healers, climate change and the power of Mother Nature. It'd be so cool if folks in Gold Beach and South Oregon knew about this. I'm from Hungary, I've never been to Oregon. But I did my research, I swear!
Operation Overlord - D-Day - June 6th 1944
On this day 79 years ago allied troops began landing on beaches in Normandy for the D-Day invasions. The beaches were given the code names UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, JUNO, and SWORD. The invasion force included 7,000 ships and landing craft manned by over 195,000 naval personnel from eight allied countries. Almost 133,000 troops from the United States, the British Commonwealth, and their allies, landed on D-Day.
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