A plaque for radio and radar technicians of the RAF

The municipality of Vierville-sur-Mer and the Deep Respect association inaugurated on Wednesday a plaque in memory of the radio and radar technicians of the second tactical air force of the Royal Air Force.

The ceremony was held in the presence of British veteran Leslie Dobinson, of the 2nd Tactical Air Force, and the attaché of the British embassy. Young people from the municipality participated in the deposit of sheaves.

These technicians had landed on D-day at Omaha Beach to control and protect by radar the airspace around the American bridgehead. The article recalls that six of them, killed on the spot on the day of the Landing, are resting in the Bayeux cemetery.

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