World War 2 GI’s

Captain John G. W. Finke was the Commander of F Company, who were based in West Bay from November 1943 to June 1944, when they left Castletown, Portland for Omaha beach on the Normandy coast. We were sent this picture of Captain Finke by the 16th Infantry Regiment Association in Read more…

80,000 US troops stayed in Dorset, training for the D-Day landings. 75 years on, our exhibition will remember the time when American soldiers lived among us in West Bay and the day they disappeared. (Friday 19th April to Sunday 23rd June, 2019).    Sergeant Phil Streczyk was billeted nearby in Read more…