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D-Day sites in England: an assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John Schofield
John Schofield*
Affiliation:
Monuments Protection Programme, English Heritage, 23 Savile Row, London W1X 1AB, England.
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Between midnight on 6 June (D-Day) and 30 June 1944, over 850,000 men landed on the invasion beachheads of Normandy, together with nearly 150,000 vehicles and 570,000 tons ofsupplies. Assembled in camps and transit areas over the preceding months, this force was dispatched from a string of sites along Britain's coastline between East Anglia and South Wales (Dobinson 1996: 2). The article reviews those sites in England involved in this embarkation. English Heritage's Monuments Protection Programme (MPP) aims to identify surviving sites and recommend appropriate protection for them.

Keywords

D-Day archaeologyMonument Protection ProgrammeNormandydifferential preservatinnheritage
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News & Notes
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Antiquity , Volume 75 , Issue 287 , March 2001 , pp. 77 - 83
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2001

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