D-Day: "Our Villages Remember"
Published 10:13 on 4 Jun 2019
The photo above shows troops practising landing just off the old Wittering House at the end of West Strand.
"OUR VILLAGES REMEMBER"
on the
75th Anniversary of D Day
The Commemorations:
0900 a.m. on Thursday 6th June 2019
The D Day Memorial,
West Wittering Beach Car Park
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1100 a.m. on Thursday 6th June 2019
Bracklesham Bay Lifeboat Station followed by refreshments and history display at Bracklesham Barn
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1030 a.m. on Friday 7th June 2019
Itchenor Hard 601 LCM Flotilla Service of Remembrance
The Witterings, Bracklesham Bay, Birdham and Itchenor played a very important role in preparations for the D Day landings of 6 June 1944. From 1941 right through to D Day many hundreds of British, Canadian and international troops were stationed locally. Operation Fabius III, one of the biggest rehearsals for the D Day Landings, took place in Bracklesham Bay and across the peninsula. After the rehearsals the troops embarked for the D Day landings many never to return.
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