{"id":1288,"date":"2017-06-06T16:49:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T21:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2017-06-06T16:54:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T21:54:15","slug":"june-6-2017-june-6-1944-d-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/june-6-2017-june-6-1944-d-day\/","title":{"rendered":"June 6 2017 &#8212; June 6, 1944 D-Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I correspond with a wonderful ninety-plus year old lady in Australia, born in England, was a Land Girl during WW2, after the war married an Australian and lived the rest of her life in Australia &#8212; Daphne Murray. Her husband was governor of New South Wales for a number of years. She wrote me of her memories of D-Day a few years ago:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am never going to forget D-Day in June 1944. My father commented at breakfast that there were a lot of planes about and when he went outside he came back indoors shaking. He thought <em>we<\/em> were being invaded. My mother, always practical, said, &#8216;Don&#8217;t be silly George, they&#8217;re ours, they&#8217;re going out to sea&#8217;. I can still see that great armada heading East, NEast and South East, all at different levels, but moving slowly, a most menacing sight, and the radio was on all day. I had four brothers in the war and three brothers-in-law, we were a fighting family, lots of\u00a0cousins too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I could quote her letters all day but this was important for today.<\/p>\n<p>And as I said last year, I will put up old photos for D-Day of Germans surrendering, because that&#8217;s what it was all about.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1290\" src=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2d2daf79988221a59f38ede150867cec-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2d2daf79988221a59f38ede150867cec-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2d2daf79988221a59f38ede150867cec-624x415.jpg 624w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2d2daf79988221a59f38ede150867cec.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1292\" src=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/germans-surrendering-300x214.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/germans-surrendering-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/germans-surrendering-624x446.png 624w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/germans-surrendering.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I correspond with a wonderful ninety-plus year old lady in Australia, born in England, was a Land Girl during WW2, after the war married an Australian and lived the rest of her life in Australia &#8212; Daphne Murray. Her husband was governor of New South Wales for a number of years. She wrote me of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}