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If any are interested, I know a few will be, here are the piccies from my Battlefield Study of Pegasus Bridge and Normandy, the Bocage and beach landings.
http://www.u-s-k.co.uk/New%20Folder/Normandy/
Feel free to ask any questions about the photos, it’s probably quicker to dl them and do a slideshow for you BB hogs 🙂
had a quick look at the first few pics mate and they look great. I was out there a couple of years back but didn’t get as far as the beaches (made it to pegasus bridge before we had to make our way back to Calais) but we did get to see the Merville gun battery………an amazing feat by the paras to take such a heavily defended point with so few men….
will look through the rest when i get a bit more time. 😀
@=XDC=Badger wrote:
it’s probably quicker to dl them and do a slideshow for you BB hogs 🙂
right click > download all via flashget/reget/getright etc etc
Some good pics mate – me grandaddy was over there – think he was at the somme 😕
All he told us about was the mustard gas and subsequent poisoning – poor sod
@=XDC= wild egg tamer wrote:
had a quick look at the first few pics mate and they look great. I was out there a couple of years back but didn’t get as far as the beaches (made it to pegasus bridge before we had to make our way back to Calais) but we did get to see the Merville gun battery………an amazing feat by the paras to take such a heavily defended point with so few men….
will look through the rest when i get a bit more time. 😀
Good sight here WET with the details of the attack on Merville.
Kool pics.. I was there in that WW2 game I fortget the name of.. something brothers, road to nowhere.. I think :/
I’ve visited the 5 landing beaches, it’s definately something I would recommend doing. It’s an amazing insight into it all, and just how hard it would have been for the poor buggers on Omaha 🙁
i agree with the poor buggers bit toothy old chap but remember it was the inaptitude of the American Navy to drop off the “floating tanks” so far out, to stay so far away from the beach and try to arty it and finally the sheer arrogance of those in charge that they refused to use the flailing machines we had developed that all contributed to the large amount of deaths on the beach………poor fuckers never had a chance and its just sheer courage that took them through.
Once again the people at the top fucking it up for the troops on the ground. 😥
hey, I was there … yesterday………. will post my pics later.
btw the museum they got there was great and we had a top bloque as a guide , spent almost 2 hours here and had a great time.
Im deffo wanting to go on one of those Battlefiel Tours next year,i was looking at one that did the Eagles nest,Dresden,Auschwitz.
Woulld like to do a castle wolfinstine tour,lol
@=XDC= MadHippy wrote:
@=XDC=Badger wrote:
it’s probably quicker to dl them and do a slideshow for you BB hogs 🙂
right click > download all via flashget/reget/getright etc etc
Some good pics mate – me grandaddy was over there – think he was at the somme 😕
All he told us about was the mustard gas and subsequent poisoning – poor sod
but that must have been WW 1 then
@=XDC=Badger wrote:
@=XDC= wild egg tamer wrote:
had a quick look at the first few pics mate and they look great. I was out there a couple of years back but didn’t get as far as the beaches (made it to pegasus bridge before we had to make our way back to Calais) but we did get to see the Merville gun battery………an amazing feat by the paras to take such a heavily defended point with so few men….
will look through the rest when i get a bit more time. 😀
Good sight here WET with the details of the attack on Merville.
you got me hooked now, deffo want to go and see it myself
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