When I go to the SOE Vehicle Compound on Thorney I sometimes see visitors. Quite often Captain Evans will be there, last night I met Mark the gamekeeper (and aren’t those cocky pheasants strutting around in for a surprise shortly!) and from time to time one of the guys on guard duty.
Today however …
Picture courtesy and copyright RNLI / Carol Carter
The Thorney Island Solent Overlord Executive Military Collectors Club Under 10s Football Club Boot Camp was extremely hard work – for the footballers and their dads. Continue reading »
I keep track of our visitors from time to time so as to see who is looking at the site, what interests them and whether I am up to date with browsers, screen resolution and operating systems. I glanced at the visitor map today:
Not bad for a small military collectors club in the central south of England!
As well as the galleries that I am slowly garnering from my colleagues at SOE there are some external sites that have OVERLORD 2011 pictures. Check this page occasionally as the list of sites grows Continue reading »
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Now you can find all media relating to World War 2 without leaving this site – just click on the “The Shop” tag at the top of any page or just click here Continue reading »
When checking how this blog is used by you, dear reader, I have a raft of statistics to help work out how people find things, what they see and what is most popular. Continue reading »
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