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Bloody Omaha on a budget
Mareng:
I'd forgotten that 2005 was pre-digi camera for me, so I've just dusted off the scanner...
Ramped Craft Logistic on Gold beach (the sand wasn't really purple, the scanner just seems to have thought it was)
Sherman (I think) tank drives off a landing craft and onto the beach for the first time in 60 years.
Royal Marines DUKW ( I think thats right)
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
Yep! Definately a Sherman with what looks like a half track in the far background. The last pic is definately a DUKW. Lovely bits of kit and high on my wish list :drool:
Bob696:
Looks like the sherman is chasing a BMW and sidecar that got a little lost :P
Greenlanekit:
Thats really is amazing, I work in TV and love watching this stuff, well done to the guys they did a great job. In 2004 I and a freind bought a 1944 Leyland Hippo, spent 9 months and a winter restoring it in an open barn freezing cold at times to full fill a boy hood dream and visit the beaches in a ww2 vehicle. Through our hunting for parts we met the son of a Hippo driver, we found his unit and marked the lorry as his, he named his "Bermondsey Kid" which he wrote in chalk on the bumper on the LCT, when he and his family were in Juno Beach museum where he came in on D+2 we parked it outside and gave him quiet a surprise.
We had the trip of a lifetime, it was the 60th Anniversary, we maxed at 28 mph, did 8 miles to the gallon, took 10 days to do it, met American & British vets, ate dinner with veterans, met Paras from Pegasus Bridge who where in the glider landings, visited all the main sites, slept in the truck on Omaha, gave one or two veterans great memories, opened the door to one families history that they never knew existed, heard lots of truely amazing stories that I shall never forget and made freinds with many people.
If you get a chance go, if you dont, make a chance, the guys who came back and the guys who did'nt we owe an great deal to, and please if you do go pay a thought and a visit to the German cemetaries. Ohama Cemetary will move you a great deal, its immaculate and very large. Ferry to Cherbourg and take the places in as you go, or book the chunnel early.
I have a whole photo album if anyone wants to see it, just let me know before hand, details of the days I run in the Events and play days section here, I'm the guy on the gate at Sibbertoft Sundays.
diggerdog36:
Ive been 3 times now and every time we go we always find somewhere weve never been, we drive along the coast from Calais to Dead mans corner near Carentan. Fantastic. Well worth the drive.
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