The author was 14 years old when he met for the for the first time the British genius on the fields of Battle of Normandy. Now retired (career in the Air Force as an officer-interpreter and then civil research engineer), he lives in his small country house, a former pumping built by the British engineer in 1944, where he spends much of his time doing to continue the fame of the Royal Engineers and to write about their achievements in Normandy. In particular, he published articles on the construction of airfields and the logistics associated to the Overlord operation.
