Woolacombe

I’m a sucker for nostalgia. This World War 2 commemorative memorial is situated on the cliffs above the rocky part of this beautiful North Devon coast.

Just yards to the left of this view is the beginning of over 3 miles of some of the best sandy beaches in the UK, being well known to surfers and holiday makers which some 60 odd years ago became one of the many intensive training areas in the UK for the vast numbers of Allied forces in the run up to the D Day landings. This Memorial is dedicated to those American troops and my other post ‘Just Surfing’ depicts a small portion of the beaches as they are now and how they may have looked all those years ago although I feel they may have been full of landing craft, boats of all sizes, amphibious tanks and marines up to their armpits in the surf training for the big day.