D-Day Merville Battery Parachute Regiment Memorial on the Berkshire Downs
by John Turp
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D-Day Merville Battery Parachute Regiment Memorial on the Berkshire Downs
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John Turp
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A memorial commemorating the 9th Battalion, Parachute Regiment who trained for the assault on the Merville Gun Battery in Normandy in the fields below the Berkshire Downs near Combe in West Berkshire. Lt Col Otway successfully improvised the assault on Merville on June 6th 1944, having only 150 men instead of 650 due to the parachute descent dispersing soldiers over a wide area.
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January 7th, 2024
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