Very good videos, thanks for posting them. Here's a little Pegasus connection that came up this past weekend. At our office Christmas party, I...
One of these bombs was recently found in British Columbia....
Here's another account of the aftermath, from the Canadian Memory Project...
The account was written by a Canadian in a support unit, so they were probably Canadians operating the bulldozers.
I've read an account of bulldozers creating a mass grave near St. Lambert in which about 5,000 soldiers were buried in the days following the battle.
A few years ago, I bought a print of Wootton's painting and noticed something very interesting. It is dated "18-8-1944". Although there is no...
Here's a link to the final installment in Legion Magazine's series of articles on the Falaise Gap....
Hello everyone, All of the various captions to and descriptions of this famous photo that I have seen say the man to whom Hauptmann Rauch...
Not to make light of a serious topic, but my father once told me that one of the worst things that could happen in battle was to run out of rum....
Hi Wessex, I've not seen this monument in person, although I was in Moerbrugge in 1980 and 1987. My dad later calculated that when I was there...
[IMG][IMG] Hi Sapper, That's a quite famous image. Here's a description of how it came to be: "Shortly after that [during the night of August...
Another way to get a translation is to copy the French text, paste it as a new document in Microsoft Word, then go to Tools, Language, Translate...
Hi Michelle, As far as I am aware, there are only three surviving Canadians who were at St. Lambert: my dad, Roger Dufresne and one member of the...
Hi Michelle, My dad was also in the Falaise Gap. An article he wrote about it is available on this link:...
Hi Martin, The DVD is generally very good, and it gives an honest assessment of the success and failure of the operation to close the Gap. Some...
Hi everyone, The DVD that was released in 2006, "Death & Destruction in the Falaise Gap" includes at the end some newsreel footage and the...
Welcome CT. I joined the forum recently out of interest sparked by my father's involvement in the same salients as your father. He was at...
Thanks, I hadn't seen that film before. There's some good footage in it. Parts of it certainly were taken at St. Lambert, including the segment...
