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Slideshow: D-Day landings re-enacted on Watermead Lake
WATERMEAD Model Boat Club encouraged people to get snap happy at their annual display to mark the D-Day Landings.
Members of the group created scenes and models which they make every year usually on June 6 but due to bad weather had to change the date this year.
They modelled burnt out buildings, hand painted 300 toy soldiers and landing barges over running the beach. A model of Mulberrry Dock (a harbour which was temporary and developed in World War II to offload cargo on the beaches during the allied invasion of Normandy) was placed and war time songs from Vera Lynne and Glen Miller were played in the background.
The Barry Potter award (in the memory of the paramedic from Stoke Mandeville hospital) was given to Vic Guy for his model of a destroyer.
Chairman, Pete Greenwood said: "Some of the old people started dancing to the music. It was fantastic as the rain kept off, last year it was a flop."
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Saturday 26 May 2012
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