D-Day 70th Anniversary
6 June 2014
After a fruitless attempt to get to Bayeux for the evening celebrations (huge traffic jam: 1 and a half hours to do 2 km) we did a U-turn and found an open air concert in St-Lô. Many of the musicians were known to us and an enjoyable evening was spent on the terrace of a bar overlooking the square. There was also a visiting band from the USA (in the red jackets; name to be added later)
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Janet Booth (photo) is the daughter of Joe Hughes, who was parachuted into Normandy on 6 June 1944 for the raid on the Merville Battery (simultaneous with the raid on Pegasus Bridge).
She now has a holiday home in Roncey (where Joe's ashes were scattered in 2003) and her brother Ron has one in Notre Dame de Cenilly.
She now has a holiday home in Roncey (where Joe's ashes were scattered in 2003) and her brother Ron has one in Notre Dame de Cenilly.