Normandy 2009 and beyond

[StraightEight]

Some pictures from the D-Day anniversary in Normandy and our tour of European battlefields in Rum Buggy, our '44 GPW.

Dog Green sector, Omaha Beach, 6:00 AM, June 6, 2009

101st Airborne tribute, Place de la Republique, Carentan.

The Colleville Draw, Omaha Beach.

Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, near Utah Beach

Vierville-sur-Mer, Friday is swap meet day and a traffic jam of military vehicles ensues. Where are the MPs?!

Rum Buggy on the causeway to Mont Saint Michel.

A herd of wild ponies serve as the only monument to the 82nd Airborne's heroic boat crossing of the Waal River to take the Nijmegen road bridge during Market-Garden.

Dragon's teeth still mark the Siegfried Line near Zweifall, Germany

The prize! A Sherman tank track still lies in the Kall Trail after 65 years, in the Hurtgen Forest near Vossenack, Germany.

 

[LocktownDog]

Very nice!

 

[AmateisGal]

These are WONDERFUL photos. Thanks so much for sharing!

 

[Spitfire]

Great pics. Must have been a fantastic tour. Did you do it all in the jeep?

 

[Eyemo]

Hey... Great to hear you had a good time...How amazing to bump into you..
Cheers,
Seimon

 

[Davep]

Did you travel there with a group, club or just friends

 

[DutchIndo]

That Bridge looks awfully familiar ! I've been on it a couple of times. I was born in Nijmegen. I was just there in May. On way to the Bridge we went down a side street and ended up in a Red Light district. I did not that they had one there. Those are really cool pictures next year France.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

Excellent!

Thank you!

-dixon cannon

 

[StraightEight]

Hey... Great to hear you had a good time...How amazing to bump into you..Cheers,Seimon

Yep, tens of thousands of people, perhaps a thousand vintage military vehicles, and we bump in Eyemo at the Super U in Sainte-Mere-Eglise on the very first day--really, in the first hour, just after getting off the ferry at Cherbourg! That was indeed amazing.

Great pics. Must have been a fantastic tour. Did you do it all in the jeep?

That was the original plan but the weather turned awful on June 7 and the jeep is not really a gran turismo, so eventually we went back to the UK and parked it, then returned with a modern car and did a high(er) speed version of the original tour.

Did you travel there with a group, club or just friends

Her Ladyship and I were invited to camp at Carentan with the North Staffordshire Military Vehicle Trust, who were perfect hosts. After the Normandy commemorations, we were on our own.