https://queensferryhistory.org/2024/06/04/d-day-landings-operation-neptune/https://queensferryhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/1.jpg1https://queensferryhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2.jpg2https://queensferryhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/iwm-a-23992.jpgiwm-a-23992OPERATION OVERLORD (THE NORMANDY LANDINGS): D-DAY 6 JUNE 1944 (A 23992) The British 2nd Army: Royal Navy Commandos at La Riviere preparing to demolish two of the many beach obstacles designed to hinder the advance of an invading army. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205193051https://queensferryhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ea-64465.jpgea-64465https://queensferryhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/iwm-ea-51046.jpgiwm-ea-51046OPERATION OVERLORD (THE NORMANDY LANDINGS): D-DAY 6 JUNE 1944 (EA 51048) Troops of the US 7th Corps wading ashore on Utah Beach. Note the identifying bands worn on the left sleeve. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205193105https://queensferryhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/c2a9-iwm-ap-51064.jpgc2a9-iwm-ap-51064PREPARATIONS FOR OPERATION OVERLORD (THE NORMANDY LANDINGS): D-DAY 6 JUNE 1944 (AP 51064) Rows of anti-tank guns at a supply ordnance depot in England. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205086880https://queensferryhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/iwm-a-24096.jpgiwm-a-24096THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR: OPERATION OVERLORD (THE NORMANDY LANDINGS): D-DAY 6 JUNE 1944 (A 24096) Glider borne troops passing over units of the Royal Navy on their way to the invasion beaches of Normandy. In the background are the battleships HMS WARSPITE and HMS RAMILLIES whilst an unidentified destroyer sails in the middle distance. Photograph taken from the cruiser FROBISHER, which had helped bombard the enemy coastal positions during the week before D-Day. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205187135https://queensferryhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-iwm-h-38125.jpgimage-iwm-h-38125ALLIED PREPARATIONS FOR D-DAY (H 38125) British troops learning to swim across a waterway in full kit on a physical training course for NCOs, 2 May 1944. Copyright: © IWM. 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DECEMBER 1940, ON BOARD HMS KELVIN. EIGHTEEN MEN STANDING ON THE DECK OF A NEUTRAL CARGO BOAT, CHEERED THE KELVIN AS IT CAME TO RESCUE THEM, AND END FIVE MONTHS OF ADVENTURES FOR THIRTEEN OF THE EIGHTEEN RESCUED MEN. THE THIRTEEN WERE MEMBERS OF THE 51ST HIGHLAND DIVISION WHO WERE CAPTURED IN JUNE 1940 DURING THE GERMAN ADVANCE ON THE SOMME. ONE NIGHT HEADED BY THEIR MAJOR, THEY ESCAPED, EVENTUALLY REACHING VICHY WHERE THEY SOMEHOW MANAGED TO OBTAIN FRENCH MILITARY UNIFORMS. FROM VICHY THEY MADE THEIR WAY TO THE SOUTH OF FRANCE, WHERE THEY OBTAINED UNIFORMS OF THE FOREIGN LEGION, TOGETHER WITH FORGED PAPERS, AND GOT TO MOROCCO WHERE THEY WERE INTERNED. THEY ESCAPED AGAIN, REACHING CASABLANCA, WHERE THEY SLIPPED ABOARD THE PORTUGUESE CARGO VESSEL. ONCE AT SEA THEY DECLARED THEMSELVES TO THE SKIPPER, THE SHIP CONTINUED ON ITS JOURNEY TO PORTUGAL DESPITE THIS. FIFTEEN MILES OUT HMS KELVIN ARRIVED AT THE SCENE AND DECIDED TO INVESTIGATE THE SHIP, AND TOOK THE MEN OFF ALONG WITH TWO FRENCHMEN ON THEIR WAY TO JOIN GENERAL DE GAULLE'S FREE FRENCH ARMY, TWO BRITISH AIRMEN, AND ONE AUSTRIAN REFUGEE. (A 2430) Some of the escapists shaking hands with the gun crew of HMS KELVIN after arriving on board. Copyright: © IWM. 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