Leaving the UK like the Invasion Force

I arrived in Portsmouth, UK this morning on the train, about 1.5hrs.  I have a ferry ticket that leaves at 3:30pm today for Caen, France, the crossing will take 6 hours.  I wanted to do the crossing of the English Channel like the Invasion force on D-day June 6, 1944.  It's actually way out of the way that most people get to France, you can cross further north at Dover, UK where its only 1.5hrs. 

The English and the Canadians left out of Portsmouth and the Americans left alittle further south but they all met in the middle of the channel before the invasion.  We will arrive just as the invasion did, except of course, we will be at a port and not right on the beaches.  The seas are expected to be rough today (5'-8') because of high winds. The allies had rough seas to deal with but they were also getting shot at, so I should get along alittle better.  I have a great uncle that died at Normandy and is buried there so I want to try to find his grave site.  I'm actually kinda ready to leave the UK.   If I get called "Mate" one more time...

The Battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord


Check out these links(Copy and Paste these links):

Francehttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Allied_Invasion_Force.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Normandy