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The attack on Carpiquet airfield should have happened during Operation Epsom, but it was postponed until July 4??"7 when, as Operation Windsor, the nearby village was taken by Can 8th Inf Bde and a battalion from Can 3rd Inf Div with the support of Can 2nd Armd Bde. The defending German units resisted defiantly, however, and it was not until July 8??"9, as part of Operation Charnwood, that the airfield was taken and held. The airfield then and now. A marks the location of the northern hangars seen in the 1944 photo. FASCINATING then and now images showing how the battlefields of France were left devastated in the three months after the WW2 D-Day landings have been revealed in a thrilling new book. The series of contrasting photographs show the Germans proudly marching through Cherbourg along what is today known as the Voie de la Libert??. A war-torn Coutances is also depicted with its cathedral, which still stands today untouched by the littering of bombs that hit, a model of the Eiffel tower can be seen lying amongst the rubble. Other pictures show Canadian David Currie who was awarded the Victoria Cross whilst in command of a battle group near St. Lambert-sur-Dive whilst trying to close the Falaise Gap where the German army was destroyed. The incredible shots have been released in the book, The Normandy Battlefields Bocage and Breakout: From the Beaches to the Falaise Gap by Simon Forty, Leo Marriott and George Forty. It is published by Casemate Publishers. Simon Forty / Battlefield Historian / Casemate Publishers / mediadrumworld.com
2016-05-16
Simon Forty / Battlefield Histor/EAST NEWS
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Simon Forty / Battlefield Histor
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