Apologies if this is not appropriate, but it's 73 years since this sequence was captured near the Poteau junction. How many here were inspired to collect or visit the sites as a result of seeing this and similar images.
Iconic birthday today 18th December
Apologies if this is not appropriate, but it's 73 years since this sequence was captured near the Poteau junction. How many here were inspired to collect or visit the sites as a result of seeing this and similar images.
SS Kampfgruppe Hansen i beleive !
The gates of hell were opened and we accepted the invitation to enter" 26/880 Lance Sgt, Edward Dyke. 26th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers , ( 3rd Tyneside Irish )
1st July 1916
Thought shall be the harder , heart the keener,
Courage the greater as our strength faileth.
Here lies our leader ,in the dust of his greatness.
Who leaves him now , be damned forever.
We who are old now shall not leave this Battle,
But lie at his feet , in the dust with our leader
House Carles at the Battle of Hastings
I am not sure but doesn't the soldier on the right wear a Luftwaffe eagle on his helmet?by Paul D
With best wishes
alter musketier
In memory of my father who was in K-Einsatz, combat engagement, with the RAD in the Alps in 1945, of my grandfather who was with the IR 87 during campaign in France in 1940 and of my grand-uncle who served in the Gardegrenadierregiment Nr. 3 "Königin Elisabeth" and who was killed in action at Craonne, Chemin des Dames in France in 1917
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