The story
Photo: This map showes a date of september 27th and 28th. It's supposed to be 27th and 28th of August 1944.
In the evening we were ordered to advance and take a commanding feature above CONNELLES, a village at the western end of the river loop.
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You have arrived at just one small part of Back to Normandy — a personal project dedicated to preserving stories, images, music and memories of the Second World War.
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