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- Shirley Jeanne Bridger (Glanville)
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- Widley/Portsmouth
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- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A2636002
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- 15 May 2004
Entered on behalf Shirley Jeanne Bridger (Glanville) (DOB: 8/7/1932)
All this took place at Widley, 9/10 miles north Portsmouth.
D-Day
I can remember seeing hundreds of planes with gliders flying across. The gliders were full of paratroopers which flew across the channel to land for the invasion.
From where we lived to the middle and north of Hampshire, as far as Haslemere, was full of Canadian soldier camps, in fields, in woods, in fact anywhere they could find space for them! Early on June the 6th, I remember hearing a loud drone, which was all their tanks and armoured vehicles moving all the soldiers and equipment for the evacuation to the continent for the invasion. By the end of that day they had all gone. I very often wonder how many of these young men (most were quite young) came back from the war. We never hear anything from any of them again.
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