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Welcome to Chateau de la Ferté. In March 2020, Adrian and Carole became the proud owners of this Chateau. Previously living in England, moving to France has been a big change and has involved ...
350 years of family history in this unique Château of the Loiret, which has remained privately-owned and open to visitors since 1987. Major castle of the Sologne Region, south of Orléans.
The First Army Corps encountered stubborn resistance at La Tretoire (north of Rabais). The enemy occupied a strong position with infantry and guns on the northern bank, of the Petit Morin River; they were dislodged with considerable loss.
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June 1944, France, a drop-zone twenty miles to the south of Paris. Night. 12 SAS under the command of Captain Patrick Garstin MC parachute from a four-engine Sterling bomber into a moonlit cornfield, armed to the teeth and laden-down with explosives. Their mission: to blow to pieces a nearby railway line, and the locomotive pulling wagon-loads of G...
July 1944, France, La Ferte Alais drop zone, just east of Etampes airbase, south of Paris. Captain Garstin’s 12-man team are parachiuted back into France, after a dramatic and spectacularly successful first sabotage mission, this time charged to blow to smithereens the enemy (Luftwaffe) airbase at Etampes – the place from where they were pulled out...
August 1944: Noailles, a dark patch of remote woodland to the north of Paris. Juist prior to dawn. A German military truck and staff car pull to a halt. Menaced by a heavily-armed guard force of SS and Gestapo, Captain Patrick Garstin and six of his SAS men are marched into the trees. Garstin, severely wounded, can barely walk. As the men are lined...
Sep 6, 2024 · German forces occupied the buildings across the Marne river crossings in of La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre. Instead, the British infantry was withdrawn and the town bombarded. Attempts were also made to cross the river by boat but were driven off by machine gunners.
Jul 28, 2023 · My wife and I have been looking for an image of this brave man for many years. He was a member of the 'Garstin Stick', Operation Gain 5th July 1944 and a reunion of family members of the Stick is planned for next year at the drop zone memorial at La Ferte Allais.
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At 1pm the British 11th, 12th and 19th Brigades attacked la Ferté sous Jouarre, and, in spite of the demolition by the Germans of the two bridges over the Petit Morin, the part of the town to the south of the Marne River was taken by 8pm.
