Memorial First Polish Armoured Division Graye-sur-Mer

Voie des Français Libres, Graye-sur-Mer
Normandie, France

This memorial, from July 2012, remembers the fact that the First Polish Armoured Division disembarked here on the end of July 1944. The text on the memorial: [i]Sur les plages d'Arromanches et Graye/Courseulles, fin juillet 1944, 16000 soldats et 400 chars de la 1ère Division Blindée Polonaise ont débarqué avec à leur tête le Général Stanislaw Maczek[/i] The translation of the text: [i]On the beaches of Arromanches and Graye/Courseulles, end of July 1944, 16000 soldiers and 400 tanks from the 1st Polish Armoured Division landed with his leader General Stanislaw Maczek[/i]

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Text by: Jente de Roust

Photo(s): Jeroen Koppes (1), (2,3,4,5)

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