On this website I will be talking threw the different stages of WW2. Such as: Devon in WW2, Slapton Sands, My Family In WW2, Local WW2 Stations, Adolf Hitler and his wife, evacuees, the woman's land army and finally the Blitz.
Dunkeswell Memorial Museum (picture below)...
Devon in ww2:
The county of Devon is said to have been the most
militarily active county in England during the course of
the WW2. From Plymouth sailed Royal Navy warships that were to take
part in epic sea battles. On Devon's beaches were trained the men of the Allied armies who took part in the D-Day invasion of 6 June 1944, including tens of thousands of American troops who sailed from Devon's ports. Away from the front line, ordinary citizens found their lives turned upside down, food rationing and war work, and the sudden thousand of evacuees brought a new urgency to quiet rural backwaters, while Hitler's sustained bombing campaigns troops saw death raining down from the skies, making massive destruction on Plymouth and Exeter.
The county of Devon is said to have been the most
militarily active county in England during the course of
the WW2. From Plymouth sailed Royal Navy warships that were to take
part in epic sea battles. On Devon's beaches were trained the men of the Allied armies who took part in the D-Day invasion of 6 June 1944, including tens of thousands of American troops who sailed from Devon's ports. Away from the front line, ordinary citizens found their lives turned upside down, food rationing and war work, and the sudden thousand of evacuees brought a new urgency to quiet rural backwaters, while Hitler's sustained bombing campaigns troops saw death raining down from the skies, making massive destruction on Plymouth and Exeter.