JOHN'S JOURNAL The ‘friendly invasion’ set in stone ...
The seaside town of Lyme Regis in Dorset, on the south coast of England, is a popular tourist destination these days. However, the story was much different during WW II when the county of Dorset was “home’ to some 80,000 service personnel that came to practice tactics and live firing exercises along the many beaches, such as West Bay and Swanage. All trace of that activity has long since disappeared, but dotted here and there are memorial plaques to commemorate the Allied forces.
At Lyme on the wall by the
