Normandy Allies announces a visit and a meeting in Trévières

For twelve years, Omaha Beach Bedford welcomed about thirty Americans from Normandy Allies every July. The cut announced a reception on Friday, July 22 at noon, at the Trévières festival hall, by Jean-Pierre Richard, mayor and general councilor.

Normandy Allies, chaired by Marsha Smith, was created to preserve the memory of his uncle, a veteran of the Landing, and to introduce the sites of the Landing and the Battle of Normandy to American students and families. The group that year included seven high school students, friends and parents of veterans, and Karl Monson. Connoisseurs of history, including the son of veteran Walter Carter, accompanied the visit.

The newspaper traced Karl Monson's journey: incorporated in June 1941, he was appointed battalion leader in 1943 to command the air defense of the New York area. Sent to England in February 1944, he had continued this mission there. Arriving in Omaha Beach on June 12, he was to protect the supreme headquarters of the Allied expeditionary force, before following the campaign of France and being promoted to lieutenant-colonel. The text then attributed to him the construction and management of three reception camps for former Allied prisoners of war in France, before his release from military obligations in May 1945.

The locals were invited to meet the group. Omaha Beach Bedford was to provide translation between American visitors, witnesses of the Landing and residents of Trévières and the surrounding area.

Reconstructed or uncertain passages:
- The military journey is presented as the one reported by the newspaper. The printed sequence "Back to France" remains unclear after the story of the French campaign; no additional travel has been invented.

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