A successful bid for Heritage Lottery funding has enabled the history of the Assault Training Centre to be told with archive and contemporary film.
To keep the memory alive young people from North Devon interviewed those in the local community who remembered the American presence.
Those same young people researched the personal histories of individual American soldiers who trained in North Devon and followed in their footsteps to the beaches of Normandy. There they each laid a rose at the grave of their chosen soldier.
Archive film of the D-Day training is shown for the first time, interlaced with contemporary film to tell the story of the Assault Training Centre.
This DVD is free to all schools and museums as an education resource, available direct from Braunton Museum.
It is also for sale at £7.00 plus £1.00 p&p from www.rtbassbooks.com and enquiries to rtbassbooks@blueyonder.co.uk
Filming at the Assault Training Centre
Photos courtesy of Simon Smith
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