Normandy Battlefield Tour Guides Association

Group picture, taken in Arromanches. A fine gathering of Normandy Battlefields Guides !

Airborne graves from the early phase of the Normandy Landings dominate this burial ground at Ranville War Cemetery, in a village at the heart of the D-Day Drop Zones in 1944. #DailyBattlefields

The Commando landings at Sword Beach of 1 Special Service Brigade, we followed the attacks at Casino & Ouistreham before them on to Benouville, over Pegasus and Horsa Bridges as they pushed to Amfreville and the Breville Ridge.

Then/Now of the edge of Pointe du Hoc. September 2021 and Today. A good third of the Pointe is gone. Looks very weak now. Not sure it will go through the next winter.

1 An absolute cracking day with clients following Troy Middleton's VIII Corps and Wood's 4th Armored Division from Periers to Pontaubault in Operation Cobra. One of the moat amazing armoured dashes in history

Having toured Pointe du Hoc over a thousand times (yes really) I thought I knew this story I didn't Steve Zaloga's research is a revelation youtu.be/HBCMAmUPejc 7.00pm BST 2.00pm EDT

A now peaceful place but one still for reflection. Ranville War Cemetery, Normandy back in January 2019 whislt on a recce with @liberationtours.

Just added the 7th Green Howards War Diary, a really interesting diary with plenty of detail at 47 pages long and 131 locations normandywarguide.com/war-diaries/7t… #WW2 #DDay #Normandy44

A soon-to-be must-read for many of us at the NBTGA. Congratulation @Niels_1944.

This book will please anyone interested by discovering this crucial Canadian battlefield in #Normandy. Written by a Normandy tour guide: @seanboy_50

Another book released and written by a NBTGA member, in this case @WW2TV.

Part 2 of the podcast I did with Lawrence has dropped

Lets take a look at the battle of Breville in June '44, in reality this would be the frontline on the left flank till Operation Paddle at the end of August. Lets set the scene from 7 June, the 1 Special Service Brigade (Commandos) along with the 6 Airborne Div holding the line.

A brilliant view of the 6th Airlanding Brigade arriving over Sword on the evening of 6 June 1944. In the foreground is HMS Serapis of the 23rd Destroyer Flotilla: that morning she had bombarded strongpoint Trout at Lion-sur-Mer.

Kath, l’épouse de Gordon Newton, vient de le rejoindre. Beaucoup de tristesse à @BatteryMerville où nous avions tant de beaux souvenirs avec eux deux. @6thairborne @supportourparas

Coming soon....

A nice archive document find this morning containing good detail on Operation Charnwood from the RAF and RCAF perspective.

This is WN 241 and the German occupied French fort called Le Fort de Digosville, east of Cherbourg. The Germans had commanding views of the Bay of Bretteville. This Leistand had two levels of observation with impressive masonry stone work! Photo set here: bit.ly/2LOULir

Just added the 6th Green Howards August 1944 War Diary covering their advance from La Figettes to Beaurgenier. normandywarguide.com/war-diaries/6t… #WW2 #Normandy