Cockleshell Heroes Picture Page

Roger and Sandra Downton in their canoe 'Sardine'

Roger and Sandra at the Operation Frankton Memorial Pointe aux Oiseaux

Roger and Sandra take a little time out during their epic journey to Bordeaux

Roger at Cockleshell Heroes Memorial
St George de Didonne

Operation Frankton Memorial

Sardine, full ahead

Old Lighthouse at Pointe de Grave

Plaque at Pointe de Grave

Camp one, 'Crusoe Island'

Hide 2. Portes de Callogne, east bank. Spring tide meant very low ebb, therefore lots of mud!

Triumphantly, Roger and Sandra approach Pont d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux

U boat pens, Bordeaux

Sandra at Centre Jean Moulin Museum, Bordeaux

Sandra with a Cockle Mark II in the cellar at the Jean Moulin French Resistance Museum

Roger outside La Toque Blanche Hotel Restaurant, in Ruffec, where Hasler and Sparks located the French Resistance

Plaque at La Toque Blanche Restaurant, Ruffec

Plaque at La Toque Blanche Restaurant, Ruffec, showing Lt Colonel Hasler, Jean Mariuad, Yvonne Mandinaud and others of the French Resistance who aided the survivors dramatic escape.