Tessel wood Villers-Bocage Cheux Caen Hill 112 Verrières ridge

06/08/2026

Today remembering in Eterville the 43rd wessex division fightings dated 10th july 1944-
4th Dorset regiment of the 130th brigade (during the day relieved by 9th Cameronians of the 46th Highland brigade) They captured and held village of Eterville. Includîg the castle then a german field hospital

06/08/2026

Today remembering (II) in Eterville the 43rd wessex division fightings dated 10th july 1944-
4th Dorset regiment of the 130th brigade (during the day relieved by 9th Cameronians of the 46th Highland brigade) They captured and held village of Eterville. Includîg the church in which an aid post was settled amidst the battle. This step was part of the larger battle of Jupiter, aiming to capture Hill 112 and to exploit further by Maltot to reach river Orne, Maltot would only fell the 22th of july.

06/08/2026

Today remembering in Eterville the 43rd wessex division fightings dated 10th july 1944-
4th Dorset regiment of the 130th brigade (during the day relieved by 9th Cameronians of the 46th Highland brigade) They captured and held village of Eterville. Includîg the castle then a german field hospital.This step was part of the larger battle of Jupiter, aiming to capture Hill 112 and to exploit further by Maltot to reach river Orne, Maltot would only fell the 22th of july.

03/07/2026

Carpiquet-luftwaffe: I Already spoke of such bombs in an article about ww2 carpiquet airfield- remains from around 1940 just found near Carpiquet airport-these are evidence of the Occupation and training by german Luftwaffe- these are dummy bombs ( concrete) training to attack Great britain and others n**i objectives such as the channel blockade of Britain etc. Tracesofwar website says "The bombs had a chemical liquid that started to smoke when the bomb hit the ground. This way the pilots could see if they had hit the training target"

💣 Découverte insolite à Verson !
Lors de travaux de déploiement de la fibre dans la plaine, plus de 75 bombes d'entraînement datant de la Seconde Guerre mondiale ont été mises au jour.
Pas d'inquiétude : 𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗲𝘀, 𝗲𝗻 𝗯𝗲́𝘁𝗼𝗻, servaient uniquement à l'entraînement et ne présentent 𝗮𝘂𝗰𝘂𝗻 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿. Les démineurs procèdent à leur identification avant qu'elles ne rejoignent, pour certaines, des musées de la région afin de préserver cette mémoire historique.
Une découverte étonnante qui rappelle que notre sous-sol recèle parfois quelques surprises !

05/06/2026

Hello sorry for no post recently- i am renewing my work on WW2. A pitiful event happened, a beautiful Monument was stolen in Breville les monts near Ranville, dedicated to scottish Piper involved with Paratroopers and Commandos battle of the British Dday Dropzone near Ranville, Bavent. Very Bad--Desolé pour le peu de publications recentes, je renouvelle mon travail sur la seconde guerre, pitoyable faits le tres beau monument dédié au joueur de cornemuse de Breville les monts a été volé, dédié aux parachutistes et commandos britanniques et francais bataille de la Dropzone britannique près de Ranville, Bavent. . Tres malsain. My photos monument near Bavent are outdated the monument was renewed with new plaque since i was there years ago.

21/01/2026

Headquarters of the Wehrmacht 716 infantry division; Generalleutnant Wilhelm Richter; it was in Caen. Villa Baumier XIXth C. 2b et 4 avenue de bagatelle. Pictures took yesterday more info see link below (it is said it moved on the 6th june into the bunker on which the musée Memorial is now built. When i was young i was fortunate to visit the empty bunker long time before they build the museum) http://sgmcaen.free.fr/PC716.ID.htm

31/10/2025

Battle of NORMANDY (II) 2 days of visit with some friends, German friend Otmar Heilmann nicely transported me. This second day 3 october, we were joined by DEREK J FORREST from Scotland(UK), now living in Normandy -he is from the DDAY ACADEMY; he was our Battlefield Guide to visit the « battle of the Falaise pocket ». He showed us that day, places of great interest, memorials, and he explained us the almost complete destruction the 7th Army and the 5th Panzer Army while they were encircled by the Western Allies, 12–21 August 1944 (wikipedia). Many thanks Otmar and Jim for a great remembrance day.

31/10/2025

Battle of NORMANDY 1944-. Better it is late than never… here to report (in 2 articles) about 2 days of visit with some friends, 2 and 3 October 2025 ! these days i was nicely transported all over Normandy by a German friend Otmar Heilmann, i have met him in the Memorial of Caen in 2022. The 2 october we went near Saint LO in the US Operation Cobra 25–31 July 1944 sector, Otmar was following his father route while he’d been a Panzergrenadier of the Panzerlehr. We are both remembering the war ; the bad events of yesterday, buiding a friendship : Germany-France, for the good of nowadays Europ. Near Saint LO his father was emprisonned by the Americains and being a prisoner of war, went in the Usa, France and Uk. His father later had survived the war. Afterwards we both visited the German la Cambe cemetery were many German soldiers paid the ultimate prize, had they voluntary followed the N**i regime or being incorporated in this war, a place also of Remembrance which shows the crazyness of war. Not far in the distance is the Us cemetery ( a precedent article about it published on this page). Thank you very much Otmar for that historic visit. (La Cambe some of his past pictures)

22/10/2025

Normandy: 2 soldiers of the Canadian Provost Corps ( military police) resting in Falaise, august 1944. Picture took from magazine « After the battle » ( battle britain prints international ltd).

25/09/2025

Caen south - HILL 112- 10th july 1944 the direction of the Wessex attack/being seen from road chateau Maltot to Eterville . Hello dear readers, expect you are fine. I lived 20years near Hill 112, and i welcomed a few British citizens on the memorial. I now moved to live 5km. I haven't got a car. So when i left 2024 i've done a little video (sound is a bit loud!) sort of moving "farewell" for me (the time for me to reorganize...) this view was what i could see from the coach every morning i was going to Caen, (coach speeds up). The battlefield: in these fields there were a german airfield in 1940 in 1944 the 9th Royal tank regiment paid a heavy price for France freedom there. I'd never Forget their sacrifice. Have a good day. Bidartd