D-Day - 60th Anniversary by Bernard Peters

D-Day - 60th Anniversary, Part 1 (The Yanks in Truro)

In World War 1, two black US divisions fought in France. One division served with the French army, winning...

D-Day - 60th Anniversary: Part 2 (The GI’s in Truro - Spam, spam and more spam!)

Of course now we enjoy turkey with cranberry - very similar, but JAM and SPAM! - that was new. Fun was made...

D-Day - 60th Anniversary: Part 2 (The GI’s in Truro - ‘Another silly bugger fallen in’)

My brother and I made friends with the GIs, partly through the canteen and meeting them as they came into...

D-Day - 60th Anniversary: Part 2 (The GIs in Truro - We will remember them)

Not only did we associate with the GIs but also with German and Italian prisoners of war, easily...

D-Day - 60th Anniversary: Part 2 (Traffic Jams and ‘Smack-ups‘)

Large steel GMCs, 3 tonners almost as wide as the roads, going hell for leather, driven by young men who...

D-Day - 60th Anniversary: Part 2 (Is that a torch in your pocket?)

Our girls weren't slow in getting to know the Americans, often at the Doughnut Dug-out or in the dance...

D-Day - 60th Anniversary: Part 2 (Woodbines and Cigars)

The sentries on duty at Malpas Park camp would chat to us when they were bored; besides they could see that...

D-Day - 60th Anniversary: Part 2 (The black GIs)

Heroic deeds were done off Omaha simply with the effort put into lift badly wounded men up the sides of...

D-Day - 60th Anniversary: Part 2 (The GI’s gone to war - The aftermath in Cornwall)

Various tools and steel mesh sheets left on the mud, petrol jerry cans came in handy, they were different...

D-Day - 60th Anniversary: Part 4 (Reports and Articles)

The First because we got it for history at school, and I was shown by my grandfather and father bundles of...

D-Day - 60th Anniversary: Part 4 (I wonder what happened to them?)

Squadron Leader John Hall just died aged 82 - Mosquito pilot June 5/6 at Juno, Sword, Gold, Omaha and Utah...