Graignes 1944 507 PIR 82 AB

[respectingthesacrifice]

Hi All

While searching some photos of La Fière for Chris, I found in my disk those about Graignes.

I would like to dedicate this post as a tribute to those paratropeers of 507 PIR 82 AB and civilians who died there

Eric

[respectingthesacrifice]

Some more

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Some more

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In front of the old church

[mdk0911]

awesome pictures - SALUTE

[respectingthesacrifice]

I have found also this one, somewhere in the hedgerrow country in the US Paratroopers sector

 

You can have a pretty good feeling of what Hedgerrow means...

 

Eric

[Legion Para]

A close of the memorial:

[Legion Para]

PAPA SAID, "WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET." is a film about what took place at Graignes. Check out the following link with trailer.

 

http://www.gpb.org/television/papa-said

[Legion Para]

For those who have never been to Graignes or may never have a chance to go, the following website has some nice then and now photographs:

 

http://www.strijdbewijs.nl/para/graigneseng.htm

[Government Issue]

Eric, thanks for the pictures. The one looking down the hedgerows really put that into perspective. Joe

[respectingthesacrifice]

For those who have never been to Graignes or may never have a chance to go, the following website has some nice then and now photographs:

 

http://www.strijdbewijs.nl/para/graigneseng.htm

[respectingthesacrifice]

Nice link, thanks for this.

[Longhorn92]

Great pics and info.

 

I visited Graignes in 2010 and like many places in Normandy, it is a quiet, peaceful little rural area and it's hard to imagine what was happening there in June of '44.

 

Never forget.