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The Dog Tags
By Elizabeth Buckler Gale

Elizabeth Buckler Gale is a local historian and author. She was born in Burton Bradstock into a background of fishing and farming and grew up there during the Second World War and acquired the greatest admiration for the bravery and sacrifice of the American servicemen.

Her parents befriended US Army soldiers who gave her a small puppy, as they left to take part in the D-Day landings.

An illustrated hand-made tenth birthday card and personalised poem presented to her is a treasured possession.

The Dog Tag is a fictional novel. Part Two , D-Day june 1944, is fiction based on published works and accounts given by men who survived.

Both This and her previous publications can be bought at The Book Shop, South Street, Bridport. or on line