Newsletter #3 – Autumn 2021

Read our Autumn 2021 newsletter! Learn more about our current projects and news. Write your impressions and suggestions to us at the following address: us6fleet.vsm@gmail.com. Enjoy the reading! To access the newsletter, place your mouse over the image below then click on the 4 arrows sign at the top right to view the document in [...]

By |2022-01-17T17:30:19+01:0019 December 2021|Actualités, News, Newsletter, Photos, Sailors, Videos|

Interview Vice-Admiral Christopher W. Grady, US Sixth Fleet Commander

Interview of Vice-Admiral Christopher W. Grady (USN), U.S. Sixth Fleet Commander at that time, by Florent Plana. At Villefranche-sur-Mer (France) in January 2017, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Sixth Fleet's departure, Vice-Admiral Grady tells us the importance of this event, which represents the historical links between Villefranche and the Sixth Fleet, [...]

By |2022-01-17T17:35:12+01:001 December 2021|Commemoration, Event, history, Memories, Navires, Sailors, Ships, Videos|

Newsletter #2 – Summer 2021

Read our Summer 2021 newsletter! Learn more about our current projects and news. Write your impressions and suggestions to us at the following address: us6fleet.vsm@gmail.com. Have a good read! To access the newsletter, place your mouse over the image below then click on the 4 arrows sign at the top right to view the document [...]

By |2021-08-12T15:09:52+02:0012 August 2021|Actualités, history, News, Newsletter, Photos, Videos|

Newsletter #1 – Spring 2021

Here is our first newsletter! Read about our current projects and news. Do not hesitate to write to us your impressions and suggestions at us6fleet.vsm@gmail.com. Have a good read! To access the newsletter, place your mouse over the image below then click on the 4 arrows sign at the top right to view the document [...]

By |2021-08-12T14:57:15+02:0012 August 2021|Actualités, history, News, Newsletter, Photos, Videos|

Interview Philip A. Dur, US Sixth Fleet Veteran

Interview of Philip A. Dur, Rear Admiral US Navy Ret., filmed by Florent Plana on an original music of Baptiste Leblanc. At Villefranche-sur-Mer (France) in January 2017, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Sixth Fleet's departure, Florent Plana interviewed Philip Dur who shared his recollection of his time in Villefranche between 1965 [...]

By |2022-01-17T17:34:01+01:0031 March 2021|Commemoration, history, Memories, Mom Germaine, Navires, Photos, Sailors, Ships, Videos|

Interview Thomas G. Lilly, US Sixth Fleet Veteran

Moving video of Thomas G. Lilly, Rear Admiral US Navy Ret., filmed by Florent Plana on an original music of Baptiste Leblanc. At Villefranche-sur-Mer (France) in January 2017, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Sixth Fleet's departure, Florent Plana interviewed Thomas Lilly who shared his recollection of his time in Villefranche between [...]

By |2022-01-17T17:34:36+01:0013 March 2021|Bloody Mary, history, Memories, Mom Germaine, Navires, Photos, Sailors, Ships, Videos|

4 July 2019 at Villefranche-sur-Mer: the movie

Independence Day - 4 July 2019 ! Full HD video clip produced by Lucas Bosc on the music Ooh Poo Pah Doo sung by James Andrews. Villefranche-sur-Mer celebrates like each year the Independence Day on 4th July 2019 ! Dance, music, Jeeps, Pin-up…. The whole Town is dressed in American style ! And this [...]

By |2019-08-18T17:31:21+02:0018 August 2019|Actualités, Commemoration, Event, News, Videos|

Best wishes for health and happiness in 2018

Dear friends, members and partners, Best wishes for health and happiness in 2018! We start this year with some very good news: Press review Nice-Matin janv 2018   In partnership with the Municipality of Villefranche-sur-Mer, the Municipality of Saint-Jean Cap Ferrat, the Conseil Départemental 06 and the Chamber of Commerce Nice Côte d’Azur, [...]

By |2019-11-25T22:10:28+01:0025 January 2018|Event, Exhibition, Exposition, News, Photos, Videos|

World Premiere HOME AWAY FROM HOME

A very beautiful evening! The World Premiere of our documentary film HOME AWAY FROM HOME was organized in partnership with the Town of Villefranche-sur-Mer in the presence of the directors Hugo Le Gourrierec and Florent Plana, the composer Baptiste Leblanc, and Nicolas Marcel, student at ESRA Côte d’Azur accompanied by his Director, Thierry Collard, and his lecturer [...]

By |2019-02-19T11:19:37+01:0014 October 2017|Actualités, Event, Videos|

Our association

Our association collects any documents… Photos, videos, testimonies, artifacts related to the American presence in Villefranche-sur- Mer with the aim of preserving and passing on this inheritance to the young generations through various media and cultural events.

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