Weymouth-D-Day Memorial
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The monument on the Seafront opposite The Royal Hotel, erected to the memory of the over half a million American Servicemen who passed through Weymouth and Portland to the beaches of Normandy. Several other plaques have been added to the memorial in recent years. My parents had always told me of those days in early 1944 when the build up to the invasion was really under way. It was an unfulfilled wish of my father's to visit the cemetery at Omaha Beach, I am glad that I was able to make the visit some years after his death. It was a moving moment to think that somewhere in that vast sea of white crosses were the bodies of young men who might have left Hershey bars in my pram. |
