A different Normandy beach landing

[Woolgar]

Brave Red Cross nurses arriving in Normandy in 1944 to help the injured troops

Nick

[WillC]

Interesting photo indeed. Wool, did you hear that I found out that my GGD was originally in Das Reich. I wonder if he was in a tank crew.

[bananamafia]

Thanks for posting this Woolgar, I love this type of pic.

[youthcollector1]

Woolgar, you wouldn't happen to know the exact date the photograph was taken, would you? Very interesting picture, thank you for posting.

[guns ltd]

Very interesting photo Nick.


John

[Danmark]

Brave Red Cross nurses arriving in Normandy in 1944 to help the injured troops

Nick

.... or it could be "darling you forgot to pack your toothbrush and spare smalls in all the rush"

... "yes dear, sorry dear, won't happen again dear"

[cricketchris1944]

The background looks odd for Normandy.
I think more likely Southern France.
chris

[big ned]

The women in the photo are actually Red Cross 'Doughnut Dollies' who manned (or should that be 'womanned'....) the coffee and doughnut supplying American Red Cross "Clubmobiles" that were a moral booster for the troops. Each Clubmobile was a GMC 2 1/2 ton truck manned by 3 ladies and each small group had a 10 vehicle complement. They first appeared in France during mid July 1944.

All the details regarding these Red Cross groups can be found here:

http://www.redcross.org/news/article...ndy-Beach-1944

Regards, Ned.

[Woolgar]

Thanks for that link Ned and the explanation

Nick

[davejb]

The background looks odd for Normandy.
I think more likely Southern France.
chris

I was thinking the same thing Chris, the coastline looks far too high with a higher point in the background