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Forgotten Friday – The Channel Island Occupation

Forgotten Friday – The Channel Island Occupation by Trish Wade In this weeks #ForgottenFriday, our fabulous Archive Assistant Trish has written about the Channel Islands being occupied during the Second World War! On the 28th of June 1940 an air raid over St....
A first hand account of D-Day 80 years on

A first hand account of D-Day 80 years on

June 6 2024: 80th Anniversary of D-Day Read a first hand account of the trepidation surrounding the turning point of WW2. On June 6th, 1944, the Allies attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, with over 156,000 Allied forces landing on five beaches along a...