Heroes Return Blog – Stories from Second World War veterans’ trips

Hi

I am the general Manager for ‘Spirit of Remembrance’, a new (but with a LOT of experienced people!) Battlefield and Remembrance Travel tour operation. We have a series of Links to Big Lottery Heroes Return 2 at our main site:

http://www.spiritofremembrance.com/page/heroes-return-2-ww2-veterans

and our secondary site:
http://www.battlefield-tours.co.uk/html/heroes-return-2.html

I would be most grateful if you could extend links back to our sites from the ‘Links’ page on Heroes Return 2.

Wiht grateful thanks in anticipation:

Nikki Archer-Waring
General Manager
Spirit of Remembrance

Please allow me to introduce myself, my name’s Sanjiev Johal I work for a television production company called Windfall Films. We’ve been asked by Channel 4 Television to look at putting together a 24-hour television event to mark the anniversary of D-Day next year (2013, not the 70th anniversary of the landings in 2014). Essentially, this would involve telling the story using archive material, analysis and including the memories of surviving veterans. Here is where I would be incredibly grateful for your help.

In order to convey the most accurate, honest and insightful account of those events, we would need to speak with the surviving veterans who endured those moments first-hand and became a living part of a history they created. With the inevitable passage of time sadly taking its toll on the numbers of D-Day veterans still alive today, locating those still with us is proving increasingly difficult. I was wondering if ‘Heroes Return’ might be able to put us in touch with any surviving D-Day veterans that the blog/service might have some contact with. In the first instance we’re just looking to talk to them about their experiences of those events, we’re not looking to film anything at this stage. Knowing of your service and commitment to veteran affairs, I thought I could possibly call on your help to try and speak to some of the D-Day heroes about that crucial moment in history before we lose them forever.

I’m very grateful for your time and help with this enquiry. Please feel free to call me on 020 7251 7676 or email me at sanjiev@windfallfilms.com if you’d like to discuss any of this further. I look forward to hearing back from you as soon as possible.

Kind regards
Sanjiev

Sanjiev Johal
Development

Windfall Films
One Underwood Row
London N1 7LZ UK
Tel: 020 7251 7676
Fax: 020 7253 8468
http://www.windfallfilms.com

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