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Normandy Campaign Timeline

The following timeline on the D-Day invasion and Normandy Campaign  represents a rough sketch of how the fighting progressed during the summer of 1944. More specific details can be found in many fine books on the subject. August 1943: The plan to invade France is endorsed during the Quebec Conference attended by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. PHOTO: NATIONAL FILM BOARD/LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA August 1943. May 8, 1944: General Dwight D. Eisenhower settles on June 5, 1944, as the date of the cross-Channel Normandy invasion. It is also decided that in the event of bad [...]

May 8, 2009, by Dan Black

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FEATHERS ON THE BRAIN– Brian Watkins, RCL representative to RCEL, “Feathers on the Brain,” a memoir of his life in Wales and as a British diplomat, available at Amazon.com or any good book shop, ISBN 978-0-9866421-5-9, $10.23. The author will be present at the Halifax Convention. Contribution from every book sold will be donated to The RCL’s Poppy Fund.

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