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Bastogne "Nuts" weekend 13 - 15 Dec

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    do we have any experience here of previous years?.....this one was 75th so I guess a bit more special...I'm keen to know what it's like other years...

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    For example Here:

    Bastogne/Manhay 2016

    or here:

    Bastogne Dec. 2015

    or here:
    2010
    Now & Then.. Ardennes Iconic Image Journey..

    and 2009

    Nuts, Bastogne 2009


    Salut and enjoy

    Alex

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    ......does anyone here actually know the post-war history of the Easy Company woods?....those trees aren't 75 years old.....and any previous stumps have been removed...which is quite a brutal operation in itself.....which makes the whole surviving Fox-Hole story interesting. We went in December and there were MORE holes than there were 2 years ago....my heart tells me that perhaps some of the depressions happened to have survived 75 years of de and re-foresting but my head suggests otherwise.....are there photos of fox-holes through the ages or similar??...or at least pre-BoB?

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    Can't clarify the post-war history, but I visited in 1997 ( about 4 years prior to BoB ). The trees looked about 10-15 years old and plenty of old , moss-covered stumps could be seen so presumably the area had been harvested of trees and replanted as is usual in the Ardennes.

    The foxholes were visible, but only about knee-deep and mainly along the roadside. This was back in the day before metal detector use became widespread, ditto Google Earth.....it was a nice dry day when I visited so I knelt on the ground to take some photos. Painful, because my right knee came down on something sharp which turned out to be a small but recognizable shell fragment.

    When I returned in 2004 the foxholes were much deeper and there were other signs of digging clearly to be seen. I didn't linger.

    But that bit of shell is still in my collection.....

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    Thank you Martin....I suspected/feared as much.....and always wondered why you limped! :-)

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    .... always wondered why you limped! :-)
    ...I never talk about it......

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