Replica 'Pegasus Bridge' sign next to the Gondrée café and Caen Canal, 23 July 2004, almost sixty years to the day after 'Operation Mosquito'. In 2004 the owner was Madame Arlette Gondrée-Pritchett, ...

On the morning of 25 July 1944, the Allies commenced ‘Operation Cobra’ . This was intended to achieve the breakout and began by ‘Carpet Bombing’ of the German positions. For their part, the German ...

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Tuosist native Eoin O’Sullivan writes of his annual pilgrimage to the little café in Benouville that was the first building in Europe liberated by the Allies as D-Day erupted on the coast of Normandy ...

A woman whose uncle was involved in the taking of Pegasus Bridge in World War Two is set to join a commemoration event in his memory. Sapper Frederick George Shorey, from North Shields, served in the ...

Hust as it was in 1944, Pegasus Bridge was overlooked by the Cafe Gondree, named for the family who run it. Back then, the events were watched by five-year-old Arlette Gondree, who is deeply troubled ...

On June 5th 1944 as wireless operator in Halifax LL 344 piloted by Flight/O Clapperton we took off at 2300 hours with 5 other Halifaxe's from Tarrant Rushton airfield in Dorset Three from 644 Squadron ...

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A BRITISH soldier has drowned in Normandy after travelling to France to take part in the official D-Day commemoration events. The soldier died as he attempted to swim a canal late on Saturday night ...