My 2006 Normandy trip (picture heavy with descriptions)
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MAY 31, 2006
BELGIUM
2750
ON THE WAY TO FOY
2754 - 2764
MONUMENT FOR 101ST EASY COMPANY
2765 - 2775
101ST DELTA COMPANY FOXHOLES IN FOY
2776 - 2777
E COMPANY MACHINE GUN NEST IN FOY
STANDING IN FOXHOLE LOOKING OVER FIELD
2779 - 2784
IN WOODS IN FOY OVERLOOKING NOVILLE WHERE GUERNERE IS LOOKING OUT WITH BABE HEFRON IN DOCUMENTARY
2789 - 2794
GERMAN CEMETARY
2795 - 2797
FOY TEMPORARY AMERICAN CEMETARY
JUNE 1, 2006
BELGIUM
2795 - 2833
116TH PANZER DIVISION PANTHER TANK IN HOUFFALIZE
2834 - 2837
MISC IN CHERAIN
2839
MISC HOUSE
2844
MISC WOODS
KAMPFGRUPPE PEIPER LOSHEIM TO LA GLEIZE (P66 A TOUR OF THE BULDGE BATTLE FIELD)
2847 – 2852
SCHEID RAILROAD BRIDGE THAT WAS BLOWN. HE SWUNG DOWN THE DIRT ROAD TO CROSS THE TRACKS.
2857 – 2860
CAFÉ PALM WAS HIS HQ (SEE HAND OUT PG2)
2864
READ PLAQUE
2866 – 2874
HONSFELD. PG 73 A TOUR OF THE BULDGE BATTLE FIELD.
2875
GRANT YAGER’S BAZOOKA TEAM WAS BEHIND A BERM WHERE THE HOUSE ON THE LEFT IS. HE FIRED AT PEIPER’S LEAD TANK FROM 100 YARDS AS IT ENTERED BULLINGENAND SHOT THE MEN AS THEY ESCAPED. AT THE FORK BEHIND THE BUSHESWAS BERNARD PAPPEL’S 50 CAL MACHINE GUN. BOTH WERE TAKEN PRISONERS AND PAPPEL WAS SHOT IN THE FIELD OF TO THE LEFT.
2878
FIELD WHERE PAPPEL’S MACHINE GUN WAS.
2881 – 2912
PLACE WHERE MALMEDY MASSACRE OCCURRED.
2902 – 2905
WIDE VIEW OF FIELD WHERE MALMEDY MASSACRE OCCURRED.
2881
MASSACRE HAPPENED IN FIELD TO LEFT OF THIS HOUSE
2906 – 2909
PICTURES OF MASSACRE
2910 – 2912
MONUMENT FOR GI’S MURDERED BY AN SS OBERSCHARFUHRER PAUL OCHMANN AND SS STURMMANN SUESS (TOUR OF BULDGE BATTLE FIELD PG 85)
2913 – 2914 AND 2933 - 2935
GENERAL TIMBERLAKE’S HQ AT LIGNEUVILLE
2924 – 2930
REAL SPOT AT THE TOP OF THE ROAD WHERE SS OBERSCHARFUHRER PAUL OCHMANN KILLED THE PRISONERS FROM PICS 2910 – 2912
2937 – 3010
MUSEAM POTEAU 44
3011 – 3013
ANTIONE FARM. SS STURMBANNFUHRER GUSTAV KNITTEL’S COMMAND POST DURING THE ATTACKS TOWARD THE WESTERN EDGE OF STAVELOT. THE EAST GABLE OF THE HOUSE STILL SHOWS ITS GUNFIRE DAMAGE
(TOUR OF BULDGE BATTLE FIELD PG 95)
3014 – 3016
HOTEL LIFRANGE. THE AMERICANS BLOCKED THE ROAD AT THIS POINT WHILE THE 51ST ENGINEER COMBAT BATTALION WIRED THE AMBLEVE RIVER BRIDGE FOR DETONATION. THIS WAS TO STOP PEIPER FROM MOVING THRU TROIS PONTS (TOUR OF BULDGE BATTLE FIELD PG 95)
3020 – 3058
KING TIGER 213 BELONGING TO OBERSTURMFUHRER RUDOLF DOLLINGER WAS ABANDONED BY KAMPFGRUPPE PEIPER IN LA GLEIZE. IT WAS SAVED FROM THE CUTTING TORCH WHEN MADAME JENNY GEENEN-DEWEZ BOUGHT IT IN JULY 1945 FROM THE AMERICAN TROOPS CLEARING WRECKAGE FROM THE VILLAGE FOR A BOTTLE OF GENUINE FRENCH COGNAC. ITS 88 MM BAREL WAS REPLACED IN 1972 BY A 75 MM BAREL FROM A PANTHER TANK. THE MUZZLE BREAK CAME FROM ONE OF THE PANTHERS DISGUISED AS AN M10 TANK DESTROYER FOR SKORZENYS TANK BRIGADE 150.
3060 – 3068
THEN AND NOW PICS
3069
WAR DAMAGE
3070 - 3078
THEN AND NOW PICS
JUNE 2, 2006
BELGIUM AND LUXENBOURG
TOUR BY JEAN MULLER ON JUNE 2 AND JUNE 3
15-RUE DE LA FAIL
L-9175 FEULEN.BAS
3079
250 POUND BOMB CRATER POSSIBLY FROM A P-38 LIGHTNING
3080 – 3083
GERMAN 88
3082 – 3083
GERMAN 105 MM HOWITZER
3084 – 3092
M4 SHERMAN TANK SERIEL #724 BUILT BY LIMA LOCAMOTIVE WORKS. THIS TANK WAS THE 224TH TANK THEY MADE BECAUSE THEY STARTED AT SERIEL NUMBER 500. TANK WAS IN WILTZ LUXEMBOURG
3093 – 3094
2400 YR OLD BASE OF A ROMAN TOWER IN LUXEMBOURG
3096 – 3104
DETECTING ON HILL508 IN THE BORSCHIED TRIANGLE IN LUXEMBOURGWHERE THE 80TH US INFANTRY 1ST AND 2ND BATTALIONS FOUGHT THE 1ST AND 3RD BATTALIONS OF THE PANZER LEHR COMPANY
3105 – 3106
LOOKING DOWN HILL 508
3107 – 3108
TREES ON HILL 508 THAT WERE HIT BY ARTILLARY FIRE
3109 – 3135
LOOKING AT HILL 508 FROM A DISTANCE. THE GERMANS OCCUPIED THE HILL ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE VALLEY AND THE AMERICANS ON THE HILL ON THE RIGHT
3136 – 3137
LOOKING UP FROM THE BOTTOM OF HILL 508
3138 – 3142
STUFF FROM DIG SPOT 1
3143 – 3147
STUFF FROM DIG SPOT 2
JUNE 3, 2006
BELGIUM AND LUXENBOURG
3152 – 3153
PROFILE OF HILL 508 IN LUXEMBOURG
3154
TREE THAT AXE HEAD WAS FOUND NEXT TO
3155
WALKING TO DIG MG NEST 4
3156
30 CAL MACHINE GUN CARTRIDGE
3158
STUFF FROM DIG SPOT 3
3160
STUFF I FOUND
3162
STUFF FROM DIG SPOT 4
3164 – 3175
FIRST BUNKER WE SAW FROM THE SIEGFRIED LINE. THIS IS WHERE I GOT PIECE OF PIPE THAT WAS PART OF THE PIPE THAT WOULD COLLECT WATER FROM THE ROOF AND BRING IT INTO THE BUNKER. ALSO GOT THE REBAR
FROM THIS BUNKER.
3178 – 3182
2ND BUNKER. DESTROYED BY COMBAT ENGINEERS. IT WAS A DOUBLE MACHINE GUN BUNKER WHOSE PURPOSE WAS TO COVER THE ROAD. THE CEILING WAS 2 METERS THICK
3183 – 3189
3RD BUNKER
3190 - 3193
11TH CENTURY CASTLE THAT WAS OCCUPIED BY A GERMAN MORTOR PLATOON. ONE US SOLDIER WAS OUT WALKING AROUND AND FOUND IT. HE KILLED EVERYONE WITH HIS GARANDE AND WAS AWARDED THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS.
3197 – 3201
BORSHIED CASTLE
3203 – 3203
GERMAN REST POSITION IN BORSHIED TRIANGLE
3208 – 3211
HILL 508. GERMANS ON LEFT AMERICANS ON RIGHT
3212 – 3220
GERMAN AID STATION. BOTTLES CONTAINED BLOOD AND SOME BOTTLES WERE WEHRMACHT BEER BOTTLES. ALSO SHOWN ARE BONES AND BOOT
PIECES.THE GERMAN WOUNDED WERE BROUGHT TO THIS AID STATION. THE GERMANS THAT DIED WERE BURIED BY US COMBAT ENGINEERS
JUNE 4, 2006
NORMANDY
3221
BLUFF OVERLOOKING OMAHA BEACH
3222 – 3234
BUNKER AT THE BASE OF THE BLUFF
3235 – 3236
OMAHA BEACH FROM TOP OF THE BLUFF ABOVE THE BUNKER
3237
PLAQUE FOR AN AIRFIELD
3238 – 3302
C47 FLYBY
3304
OMAHA BEACH
3305 – 3306
SHRAPNEL FROM A FARM FILED I FOUND ON TOP OF THE BLUFF OVERLOOKING OMAHA BEACH
JUNE 5, 2006
3308
OUR HOTEL AT OMAHA BEACH. THE HOTEL WAS ON THE ST.LAURANT DRAW (ONE OF THE 4 CAUSEWAYS)
3309 – 3310
FIRST AMERICAN CEMETARY ON OMAHA BEACH
3312 – 3315
POINT DU HOC
3316 – 3338
TOWN OF ARROMANCHES (GOLD BEACH). MULBERRY HARBOR
3228 – 3229
BILL PRICE. A VET FROM D DAY THAT WAS ON THE MERCHANT SHIP INNERTON THAT HELPED TO FORM THE OUTER BREAKWALL FOR THE MULLBERRY HARBOR. HE ALSO MANNED A LOW FLYING AA GUN IN THE ROYAL NAVY
3339 – 3342
FOLLOWING A HALF TRACK LEAVING ARROMANCHES
3343 – 3378
THE LONGUES BATTERY AND AMMO BUNKERS
3368 – 3376
OBSERVATION AND FIRING BUNLERS FROM THE MOVIE “THE LONGEST DAY” WHERE WERNER PLOUSK SAW THE INVASION AND TELEPHONED THAT IT WAS HAPPENING
3379 – 3393
D DAY WRECKS MUSEAUM
JUNE 6, 2006
3402 – 3455
D DAY SUNRISE 0600 – 0700 HOURS
3424 – 3455
RE ENACTORS
3456 – 3461
D DAY OMAHA MUSEAM
3462 – 3463
INDIAN 500 MOTOR CYCLE
3465 - 3502
POINT DU HOC
3503 – 3504
MOTORCYLCE
3505 – 3506
ON THE WAY TO ST MERE EGLISE
3512 – 3532
PLACE TOCCOA. ON THE NIGHT ON THE D DAY AIRDROP THIS CHURCH IN ANGOVILLE AU PLAIN SERVED AS AN AID STATION AND CHANGED HANDS MANY TIMES. BOTH US AND GERMANS WERE TREATED HERE. A GERMAN SNIPER WAS IN THE TOWER AND AFTER HOURS GAVE UP. THE DARK STAINS ON THE BENCHES ARE BLOOD FROM THE SOLDIERS.
3533 – 3534
COL SINKS COMMAND POST. THE MIDDLE DOOR IS WHERE THE SOLDIER IN STANDING WITH A MOHAWK
3535
HEDGE ROW
3536
DROP ZONE DELTA FOR THE 101ST AB
3537 – 3540
THIS BARN WAS 101ST FIRST HQ
3545 – 3546
FIELD WHERE GLIDER CRASHED UPSIDE DOWN WITH THE PIC WITH THE BODIES LAYING NEXT TO IT. THIS LOCATION IS SOUTH OF THE TOWN OF HOLDY
3547
DOC LANGS 1ST AID STATION
3449 – 3554
MARIE ST DUMONT
3555 – 3574
AMERICAN CEMETARY IN NORMANDY
3558 – 3559 AND 3561
CHET GRAHAM AT THE GRAVE OF HIS FRIEND FRED GILLESPIE. FRED LOOKED AROUND THE CORNER OF A BUILDING AND HIS HEAD WAS TAKEN OFF BY A GERMAN 88 “HIS BODY WAS THERE MINUS HIS HEAD” THIS HAPPENED IIN THE TOWN OF PICAUVILLE
JUNE 7, 2006
3576 – 3596
ST MERE EGLISE
JOHN STEELE HANGING FROM THE STEEPLE
3586
TOWN HALL IN ST MERE EGLISE WHERE 1ST AMERICAN FLAG FLEW ON THE MORNING OF 6/6/44 @ 0430
3596
AIRBORNE MUSEAM IN ST MERE EGLISE
3597 – 3598
GENERAL GAVINS FOXHOLE
3599 – 3613
BRECOURT MANOR
GUNS WERE IN THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE FIELD
3610 – 3613
E COMPANY VIEW OF FIELD WHERE GUNS WERE BEFORE THEY ATTACKED
3614 – 3621
UTAH BEACH
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by maxspeed
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