What a fantastic day! Outside the museum alongside Paul Morgan's display and in company with members of Solent Overlord Exec. Crowds of visitors to the museum, wellwishers and onlookers and best of all Normandy Veterans.
I was proud to be there and felt priveleged to get the chance to thank a number of the veterans for what they did. To a man they were humble and self effacing about their contribution, citing the greater sacrifice made by others as more important to be remembered.
The display and the jeeps arranged outside the entrance to the museum proved to be a great crowd puller for the hundreds of visitors. People are fascinated by jeeps, from 9:30 until well past 6 the crowds just kept on coming.
It was also a major first for me in that I travelled in convoy with other jeeps for the first time - that was a special feeling! As I barrelled down the A27 near Portchester I caught up with 3 jeeps and a Reo belonging to members of S.Hants MVT. I was more than a bit relieved to find them as I wasn't really sure how to get through Portmouth city centre and was kind of winging it. They got me to the museum in one piece and then parked up on the common - cheers chaps!
A phenomenally busy day was topped off by following Ian from SOE out of the city to Cosham where I found the A27 and headed home asap fearing it might get dark and the lights would have to come on - that's a scary thought! Thanks Ian for the "tow" home and many thanks to Paul for the invitation.
All in all a most successful and memorable day!
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