SAN JOSE, Calif. â While King George VI visited victorious Allied troops in Normandy 10 days after they drove the Nazis off French beaches, Wilton Johnson of Menlo Park, California, marched north on the peninsula toward his next mission past tall hedgerows on war-torn roads with the faint rat tat tat of gunfire in the distance.
As part of a machine gun platoon for the 82nd Airborne Division, Johnson and his men â just hours after landing in France during the historic Normandy Invasion â attacked a roadblock set up near the German-occupied town of Sainte-Mère-Ãglise.
They took the town and Johnson was photographed in front of the town s church. Then more danger lurked, as he and his squad walked in drainage ditches next to a road amid the thuds of artillery in the distance.
ULVERSTON S outgoing mayor Sharon Webster has spoken of how she has cherished her two year spell wearing the mayoral chains. Cllr Webster took on the role from her husband Cllr David Webster after serving as his deputy mayor for a year and has faced an unorthodox time as mayor after doing her last duty at the centenary of the Royal British Legion at the weekend. ULVERSTON: Left to right: Cllr Norman Bishop-Rowe, President Tom Pickthell and the Mayor Sharon Webster With the coronavirus pandemic hitting the UK early 2020, it was decided she would continue as mayor for a second term. So, she had contrasting two years with plenty of mayoral occasions to do during her first year, then with Covid cancelling most events, it was a relatively quiet second year.
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An independent zero-waste shop has officially opened its doors after moving to a larger premises in the town centre. Bosses behind Cut the Wrap bid farewell to their Upper Brook Street site on Monday after nearly three years of business. The popular plastic-free grocery store was set up by Cat and Paul Moffatt in July 2018 after the pair watched a Blue Planet documentary which inspired them to reduce their carbon footprint. The store operates on a complete plastic-free basis, with customers choosing how much of a product they want to buy – and in what container. After a difficult 2020, Mrs Moffatt said the couple is forging a ‘brighter, more positive’ future in their new base in New Market Street.