The last part of this excerpt from a speech made by the great Winston Churchill starting at 'and' and ending at 'today' is carved in stone at the Liberation Monument at St Peter Port's harbour.
The rest of Europe celebrated Victory in Europe on the 8th May 1945. The Channel Islands however were not freed until the 9th. Even though the Channel Islands are on the way to France and could perhaps have been freed on D-day they were too heavily defended and not strategically important enough to risk the loss of life that would have been caused by an allied invasion so Guernsey was not freed until the 9th. Jersey also has a lovely Liberation Monument in St Helier. I will continue this in another post as mymy iPad does not like my blog nod I cannot currently see what I am writing.
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