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Off to Normandy tonight 4am, going for 4 days ave a look around, going with 2 mates from the XJROC, so should be a good one. Base is just off the Normandy beach, will let you know how it goes..

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highwayman128 @ 30/03/2011 11:42  

Hey I recognise that bridge!! If you get a chance, go to Pointe du Hoc where the commandos used grappling irons to scale the cliffs at the back of Omaha beach. The smashed big gun emplacements have been preserved just as they were left when the allied naval bombardment stopped and the commandos had finished lobbing grenades in......a really awesome and humbling place I'm so envious....La Belle France, je t'aime

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Minnie the Minx @ 30/03/2011 13:36  

Go have a look at Port en Bessin, very pretty fishing village, great restaurants

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brigadoon @ 30/03/2011 18:26  

Im hopeing to get around most of it, but I know i wont,, .

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highwayman128 @ 30/03/2011 18:53  

Not in 4 days no, but you should be able to ride up all along the coast

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brigadoon @ 30/03/2011 20:18  

Ooh and don't forget the paratrooper hanging off the church steeple in Sainte Mere-eglise.....The Longest day is one of my favourite films ever

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Minnie the Minx @ 30/03/2011 22:35  

Will Richard Todd still be holding Pegasus bridge?

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pondlife @ 31/03/2011 03:29  

You Bet Pondlife!!!

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Minnie the Minx @ 31/03/2011 09:10  

Just as long as Millom doesn't start up with the bloody bagpipes!!

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pondlife @ 31/03/2011 11:11  

Hahahahaha....PMSL @ pondlife.......And I always wonder whatever did happen to Mrs Rommel's lovely shoes???

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Minnie the Minx @ 31/03/2011 11:20  

Actually,Mr.Millom has recently died. Takes a special kind of guts to wade into battle armed with nothing but a set of bagpipes,they don't make many like him anymore

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pondlife @ 31/03/2011 11:37  

trust a woman to worry about shoes!! I want to know what became of Pluskatt's dog

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pondlife @ 31/03/2011 11:45  

I agree with your sentiments about Mr Millom....There are so many stories of courage and bravery, over and over....that's why visiting the beaches is so humbling....They all deserve the utmost respect But I still stand by my interest in Mrs Rommel's shoes....the whole course of WW2 could have been entirely different if he wasn't so keen on nipping home for his conjugals (with sweetener shoes)

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Minnie the Minx @ 31/03/2011 12:25  

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