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if I ever take a better picture than this I'll be a happy man....
Return to Normandy 2009
D-Day 65th Anniversary events
It was my great privilege and pleasure to be invited to travel to Normandy in June 2009 with a large Veterans group to mark the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings. This website is a pictorial story of some of that trip, and a lot of the text is deliberately 'blocky' and quite large, as many of the readers are going to be a little faint of eyesight due to their age
This very lengthy site (some 60 plus pages) also holds text , video and photos of my visits in 2003, and from the 60th Anniversary trip in 2004, plus some related events, which used to all be held on separate websites but are now rolled up into this one. There are a lot of pages, sorted by various categories of interest, including people, places, things and thoughts, which are held in the menu bar to your left hand side, top of page. Please read as much or as little as you wish. Some of the links are to external sites, where something explains a concept or some history better than I ever could, some linsk are to pages within this site.
This is not a commercial site but all images, video and text is copyright to me, Dave Evans © 2009 unless otherwise mentioned on the relevant page(s). However please feel free to link to here, especially for educational purposes, as that’s what it’s all about. Len, who I mention a lot elsewhere on this site (and who is pictured above), teaches at his local school in Norfolk about the War, and does huge amounts of work with the Imperial War Museum.
We are all about education….
Anyone who’d like to use an image, text or video for non-commercial purposes please contact me and I’d be happy to say yes.
If you have a commercial or business use for the image then you must ask me first, but be prepared to be sending some money to the British Legion in return for permission to use it, and if it is for selling toothpaste or something irrelevant or not appropriate then we'll probably say no.
I am a private individual with no affiliation, spokesperson role or membership of any military or similar group, thus the opinions expressed here are entirely my own. I hope you gain something useful from visiting this site, and maybe now feel the need to go see Normandy for yourself.
In any case, don't forget to hug a veteran
Jamais Perdu Jour J
Dave Evans
Outside Café Gondree, Pegasus Bridge, 5-6-2009.
Where the invasion started, new friendships are forged 65 years later.
“Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” Winston Churchill
while I have tried to keep the content of this site suitable for all ages I cannot guarantee that it is- War is not a 'fluffy' subject and so parents and teachers should check it over first. I cannot be held responsible for the content of any external sites I have linked to.