D-day's secret weapon: how wetland science stopped the Normandy landings from getting bogged down - 06-Jun-2024
Scientists with expertise in mud and peat were a key part of planning the Normandy landings in 1944.
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Scientists with expertise in mud and peat were a key part of planning the Normandy landings in 1944.
Scientists with expertise in mud and peat were a key part of planning the Normandy landings in 1944.
On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a local author has just published a new book about Allied landing craft and their crews on D-Day.
If the Allies stood any chance of success on D-Day, it would take the combined efforts of scientists, military tacticians and the French Resistance to achieve victory
The 330ft-long vessel was among some 1,000 military, merchant, fishing and civilian 'little ships' that famously helped rescue 338,226 Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940.