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Albert Pier Slipway

The Channel Islands were the only British Isles to be occupied by German forces during WWII. After the D-Day landings the Islands of Guernsey were cut off from provisions from mainland Europe. Eleven months later, Allied forces landed in Guernsey, bringing food and provisions to starving islanders.

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V for Victory

Despite the unprecedented size of the enemy presence, approximately one German soldier to four civilians, and the threat of severe punishment, acts of subversion were widespread. Joseph Le Guyader found a unique way of expressing his recalcitrance, by laying paving stones in the shape of a V-for-Victory in a public place.

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Lighthouse Memorial

Standing immediately outside the Maritime Museum on the New North Quay of St. Helier Harbour is the Lighthouse Memorial. The lighthouse stood at St. Catherine’s Pier for over 100 years, before it was decommissioned in 1996. It was then installed there as a memorial to the Jersey 21.

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Braye Harbour

Unlike the other Islands of Guernsey, the civilian population of Alderney was almost totally evacuated prior to its occupation by German forces in 1940. Islanders returned five years later to a very different landscape, dotted with German fortifications.

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