Past Tunnel Wall D-Day articles and links

D-Day: Remembering the heroes

 

These posts contain many links for you to research and some are quite old. If you find any that are inactive, please let the Tunnel Dweller know in the comments section. If it is at all possible to restore inactive links, we will gladly do so.

1. The Tunnel Wall: Omaha Beach D-Day landings from above ...
2. D-Day- and beyond- Airborne site; one of the best I've ever seen ;   Related links
3. Some D-Day sites for you history buffs (Links added 1/20/2011)
4. 25 photos of D-Day from the Robert Capa collection
5. REMEMBERING D-DAY
6. D-Day; Omaha Beach then and now photographs (Updated, 12/3/2011)
7. Rich Terrell on D-Day plus posts from MilBlogs Mudville Gazette and Blackfive
8. This Haunting Tribute To World War II’s Fallen Will Give You Goosebumps
9. The Tunnel Wall: 'These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc'
10. The ruins of Normandy: Unpublished color photos taken in northern France in 1944 show the devastating impact of the Allied Force's battle to defeat the Nazis in WW 2
11. RIP Dick Winters  

New links:
What We Leave Behind    "The first story is a massive installation called The Fallen, by British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss. The Fallen is 9,000 human silhouettes drawn into the sand on the D-Day landing beach of Arromanches, Normandy, to commemorate the lives lost during D-Day. "

Unique photographic record of D-Day by Cambridgeshire veteran   "When Sub Lieutenant Brian Carter from St Ives led his troops onto the beaches at the age of 19, he was carrying a camera and the pictures he took tell their own fascinating story."  Via Support The British Army on Facebook

 

D-Day: "I picked up binoculars and saw bodies floating near the beach," says Normandy landings survivor Brian Carter    ... "As we headed for the beach I realised that we would have to land on top of them, but in no way could we abort the operation.

“ 'We carried on relentlessly until we beached. The door was dropped, the first tank started to roll off, then the officer in charge, standing head and shoulders out of the tank, was shot in the head."   More...