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Baldblutch · 12-08-2004, 05:29 PM

As promised, some more pictures from Normandy, this time some re-enactment!

This one is in front of the Ste Mère Eglise church:

Baldblutch · 12-08-2004, 05:30 PM

Some other picture of me and the guys in St. Marcouf, you might recognise this one!

Baldblutch · 12-08-2004, 06:59 PM

And here is the real picture!

Baldblutch · 12-08-2004, 07:03 PM

This is also one you guys might recognise:

Taken at Ferme Marmion between Ravenoville and Foucarville:

Baldblutch · 12-08-2004, 07:04 PM

And here again, the real thing, taken at the same spot, 60 years earlier:

Ali Hollington · 13-08-2004, 04:55 PM

Stupid question I'm sure- but no weapons- was that a legal thing?
Ali

angie999 · 13-08-2004, 07:43 PM

Great pix, but just one comparison.

My husband, a former airborne soldier, looked and said the real thing, 1944 version, were younger and fitter. As he put it "they had less fat on them than a butcher's pencil" - one of the more printable of his quaint terms!

Baldblutch · 13-08-2004, 09:04 PM

Yes, it is true, only one comparison, the other one with the flag is on its way, the pictures were taken at the original places, you can be sure of that!

And about the fat, by the time these paras turned 35, like we do, they looked the same as we do now.... This hobby is to expensive for 18-year-olds, so first find the money, than the uniform and underway, get somewhat fatter! <_<

And the weapons, yes, it was a legal thing, I don't want to risk loosing a weapon or getting a fine and in trouble just for historical accuracy, you know!

angie999 · 15-08-2004, 12:31 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Baldblutch@Aug 13 2004, 07:04 PM
And about the fat, by the time these paras turned 35, like we do, they looked the same as we do now.... This hobby is to expensive for 18-year-olds, so first find the money, than the uniform and underway, get somewhat fatter! <_<

Point taken and no offence meant. I think he was referring to how young and fit your average airborne soldier actually is.

Baldblutch · 16-08-2004, 11:49 PM

Well, of course, re-enacting is a hobby that is especially interesting during the long big band nights, and being a Belgian, that means we like to take life the easy way, hence the fat.....

13-08-2004, 04:55 PM	#16 (permalink)
Ali Hollington Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 154	Stupid question I'm sure- but no weapons- was that a legal thing? Ali __________________ http://alihollington.typepad.com/historic_battlefields/

13-08-2004, 07:43 PM	#17 (permalink)
angie999 Very Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: near Bristol, UK Posts: 1,559	Great pix, but just one comparison. My husband, a former airborne soldier, looked and said the real thing, 1944 version, were younger and fitter. As he put it "they had less fat on them than a butcher's pencil" - one of the more printable of his quaint terms! __________________ Angie "History is lived forward but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was like to know the beginning only." C V Wedgewood

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12-08-2004, 05:29 PM	#11 (permalink)
Baldblutch Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 36	As promised, some more pictures from Normandy, this time some re-enactment! This one is in front of the Ste Mère Eglise church:

12-08-2004, 05:30 PM	#12 (permalink)
Baldblutch Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 36	Some other picture of me and the guys in St. Marcouf, you might recognise this one!

12-08-2004, 06:59 PM	#13 (permalink)
Baldblutch Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 36	And here is the real picture!

12-08-2004, 07:03 PM	#14 (permalink)
Baldblutch Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 36	This is also one you guys might recognise: Taken at Ferme Marmion between Ravenoville and Foucarville:

12-08-2004, 07:04 PM	#15 (permalink)
Baldblutch Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 36	And here again, the real thing, taken at the same spot, 60 years earlier:

13-08-2004, 09:04 PM	#18 (permalink)
Baldblutch Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 36	Yes, it is true, only one comparison, the other one with the flag is on its way, the pictures were taken at the original places, you can be sure of that! And about the fat, by the time these paras turned 35, like we do, they looked the same as we do now.... This hobby is to expensive for 18-year-olds, so first find the money, than the uniform and underway, get somewhat fatter! <_< And the weapons, yes, it was a legal thing, I don't want to risk loosing a weapon or getting a fine and in trouble just for historical accuracy, you know!

16-08-2004, 11:49 PM	#20 (permalink)
Baldblutch Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 36	Well, of course, re-enacting is a hobby that is especially interesting during the long big band nights, and being a Belgian, that means we like to take life the easy way, hence the fat.....

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