I found my grandfather’s D-Day diary and went to Normandy to retrace his steps.
Diary entry, 6 June 1944: “Land (invasion) 07.30, little done in the morning, with inf in the afternoon[antry]4 pill boxes appeared. We met with the other AVREs at 17:00 (approximately).” Much has been written about D-Day. While it wasn’t much, it turns out that my grandfather James “Jim” Baxter summed up his role in history’s… Read More »