Travel Bug Dog Tag Bill Bowdidge, 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, British 3rd Division

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Released:
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Origin:
California, United States
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In the hands of Doperwt.

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This item was picked up at the British Fusilier's Museum inside the Tower of London. Keep him moving, and maybe he will make it back to Normandy some day...

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On June 6, 1944 (D-Day) 2700 ships carrying landing craft and 176,000 soldiers crossed the English Channel. At 6:30 am allied troops stormed ashore onto the heavily fortified Normandy beaches. These beach landings were the largest sea-borne invasion in history. The beaches were given code names - Omaha, Sword, Juno, Utah and Gold. Many of these beaches had been laid with hundreds of mines, fortified machine gun nests and miles of barbed wire. The invasion force was backed up by air-borne divisions who either parachuted or used gliders to land behind the enemy lines. They captured many enemy bridges and railway tracks.

This soldier is wearing a Mark III steel helmet, 1940 pattern blouse and trousers, hobnailed "ammunition boots" and a rubberised inflatable life vest. His 1942 "battle jerkin" was only issued to some of the initial assault waves for D-Day. His rifle is a .303in calibre Lee Enfield rifle which was more reliable and accurate than the Sten machine gun which has also used by British troops during D-Day.

Here's a link of an audio clip from Bill Bowdidge remembering D-Day: (visit link)

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Tracking History (24465.3mi) View Map

Retrieve It from a Cache 10/27/2009 stejor retrieved it from UN-Nations Skåne, Sweden   Visit Log

NIce TB. Will move it on to a new location soon.
/Stejor
Discovered It 10/27/2009 DenFete discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered him in hands of Stejor
Dropped Off 10/19/2009 Dr Mike placed it in UN-Nations Skåne, Sweden - 35.51 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 10/11/2009 Dr Mike retrieved it from *-019* GeoHotel Eket. H 15422 Skåne, Sweden   Visit Log

Took it from Geohotel Eket today, and will move it to a new cache soon. // Dr Mike
Dropped Off 9/17/2009 Knudsen. placed it in *-019* GeoHotel Eket. H 15422 Skåne, Sweden - 105.98 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/16/2009 Knudsen. retrieved it from TB Hotel Torsvik Jönköping, Sweden   Visit Log

(DK) En rigtig fin TB. Den vil nu blive lagt i ``GeoHotel Eket´´ GC1PFQ5 hvor den snart vil drage videre på sin rejse.

Dropped Off 9/15/2009 Takemountain placed it in TB Hotel Torsvik Jönköping, Sweden - 150.74 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/20/2009 Takemountain retrieved it from Hoddorna (tjugan) Skåne, Sweden   Visit Log

Får följa med mig hem.
Dropped Off 8/20/2009 mrperan_PDCL placed it in Hoddorna (tjugan) Skåne, Sweden - 6.81 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/19/2009 mrperan_PDCL retrieved it from H-golf Skåne, Sweden   Visit Log

The war continues....
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