American and British Naval Forces at Salcombe and Slapton 1943 - 1945

Murch, Muriel/ Murch, David

Dancing Seagull Publishing（2015/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 64 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781919646657

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The inhabitants of the South Hams in Devon little realised
how the widely reported Quebec Conference of Allied War Leaders in August 1943
would affect their lives.  It was then
that final plans were made for the provision of shore facilities necessary to
train personnel, maintain and repair landing craft, and store and supply all
the war materials needed for the landing on the coast of occupied Europe that
would ultimately change the course of the war.

In September 1943 the first members of the U.S.N.
Construction came to Salcombe to establish an Amphibious Base... It was a move
that would change life in Salcombe for ever...

​'T'was not only Salcombe itself that was affected by the
influx of Americans that vastly outnumbered the local civilian population.  The site chosen for battle practise for the D
Day landings resulted in a vast area around Slapton Beach being cleared of farms,
people, churches and homes, and a way of life that had existed for hundreds of
years ending. We did it because it was for the war effort.  But it broke our hearts." - Dorothy
Weymouth