D-Day Remembered
D-Day Remembered
GB5OD GB6OD GB75OF 1994 - 2019
Commemorating the 50th, 60th and 75th Anniversaries of D-Day 6 June 1944
ALSO GR5OD and GB6VE
Commemorating VE Day and VJ Day
- 'GB5OD' is the 1994 event, commemorating D-Day.
- 'GB6OD' is the 2004 event. commemorating D-Day.
- 'GR50D' is the 1995 event, commemorating VE-Day and VJ-Day.
- 'GB6VE' is the 2005 event, commemorating VE-Day.
- 'Pilgrimage' is a poem by Hugh Simpson remembering the 'Longest Day'.
- 'Big Red 1' is a brief history of the US 1st Infantry Division.
The 75th anniversary of D-Day
THE NOTHE FORT WEYMOUTH
The events leading up to D-Day and the invasion of Europe was to be commemorated nationally during 1994. Weymouth and Portland had played a vital role in Operation Overlord and The South Dorset Radio Society decided that it would play its part in the commemorations by running a special event station from the Nothe Fort at the entrance to Weymouth Harbour. The Fort overlooks the embarkation jetties used by over 30,000 US troops who had departed for the Normandy beaches 50 years before. The major part of the American assault force which landed on the shores of France on D-Day 1944 was launched from Weymouth and Portland harbours and from June 6 1944 to May 7 1945 418,585 troops and 144,093 vehicles were embarked.
In June 1994 and 2004 the South Dorset Radio Society ran two special event stations from the Nothe Fort in Weymouth to commemorate D-Day the 6th of June 1944. The 'subpages' below are about those events.
In 1995 and 2005 the South Dorset Radio Society again set up a Special Event station at the Nothe Fort to commemorate VE and VJ Days. After the events of D-Day, Weymouth and Portland continued to be a major staging post for troops and equipment to Europe and by the end of the war nearly half-a-million men had embarked from Weymouth and Portland harbours. GR5OD remembered all those who helped to bring about that final victory.