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Almost There

D-DAY – ALLIED FORCES DURING THE INVASION OF NORMANDY 6 JUNE 1944 (A 23896) US sailors manning 20mm gun positions on board USS LST-25 watch as a Rhino ferry transports vehicles of 168 Field Ambulance, attached to 8th Armoured Brigade, towards the beaches of Gold assault area, 6 June 1944. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205155924

I think I have about a dozen pages to go to finish the transfer of the RAF Beach Units website to the new platform. Then there will be some tidying and tweaking.

All the information relating to D-Day in Normandy is there though, ready for the upcoming anniversary.

The new format, apart from being more up to date, is easier to work with, so it has been worth the effort.

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Under Way

D-DAY – BRITISH FORCES DURING THE INVASION OF NORMANDY 6 JUNE 1944 (B 5160) Vehicles and men aboard LST 406 with other landing craft during the passage to Normandy, 6 June 1944. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205205831

This new version of the RAF Beach Units website is taking shape, though it is going to take a while to add all of the content.

I decided to start with all the pages relating to D-Day in Normandy, which is quite a chunk of it, and this is almost complete now.

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New Website Under Construction

© IWM CL 709
Men of an RAF Airfield Construction Wing finish off the 5,000ft runway at Lingevres (B-19), 6 August 1944. Iron stakes are being driven in to secure the metal SMT (square-mesh track) surface, which was stored in rolls and had to be correctly tensioned to prevent it flexing in use. The airstrip took a mere six days to complete, and was the first to be constructed in Normandy by RAF manpower alone. © IWM CL 709

The RAF Beach Units website has been online since 2007. With time and technology marching on, the website needed to be re-platformed and so the work has begun.

It will take time to re-build the content on this new platform and I hope you will bear with me during this process.