World War 2 Talk - WW2 Battlefields Today http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ en Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:18:55 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/{IF}/misc/rss.jpg World War 2 Talk - WW2 Battlefields Today http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ The Djebel Mansour Tunisia http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28695-djebel-mansour-tunisia.html Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:46:51 GMT Hopefully some of these are of interest.... By the way it is easier to put my photos on facebook....not limited to 2 MB.....so there are more on my page on facebook than here...... Hopefully some of these are of interest....

By the way it is easier to put my photos on facebook....not limited to 2 MB.....so there are more on my page on facebook than here......
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]]> WW2 Battlefields Today airborne medic http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28695-djebel-mansour-tunisia.html Holiday Shots 2010 - North Sea to Switzerland http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28554-holiday-shots-2010-north-sea-switzerland.html Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:59:27 GMT Most places visited were of mainly WW1 (with an odd spattering of 1870/71 of course!) interest this year but, as usual, WW2 sites always manage to creep in!

Here're a few random shots...


Fort Nieulay (near Calais) and the (1944) R.Winnipeg Rifles memorial...
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]]> WW2 Battlefields Today CROONAERT http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28554-holiday-shots-2010-north-sea-switzerland.html Leger 5 day trip to Normandy http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28550-leger-5-day-trip-normandy.html Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:01:12 GMT My lovely wife Charlotte has arranged a trip to Normandy for my 40th next spring. It's the Leger 5 day break that in order is a day in the British and Commonwealth sectors, a day in the U.S sectors and then the 'inland battles' such as Hill 112 and Falaise etc.

Simply question: has anyone been on the trip and if so, what did you think of it? ]]> WW2 Battlefields Today JonathanBall39 http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28550-leger-5-day-trip-normandy.html <![CDATA[Hermanville, has anyone got a 'Now' to this 'Then' ?]]> http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28437-hermanville-has-anyone-got-now-then.html Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:19:06 GMT I'm sure I've seen a Then & Now in an old After The Battle issue.
Has anyone got an old copy with this in or have already 'Then & Now'ed this photo.
Cheers.




A Universal carrier with wading screens attached and half-tracks passing through Hermanville-sur-Mer, 6 June 1944. ]]> WW2 Battlefields Today Owen http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28437-hermanville-has-anyone-got-now-then.html Antiglider poles in Fife http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28420-antiglider-poles-fife.html Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:57:13 GMT I was searching for information on aerial attacks on the Firth of Forth Railway Bridge and came across this curious website. Anti-Glider Poles... I was searching for information on aerial attacks on the Firth of Forth Railway Bridge and came across this curious website.
Anti-Glider Poles

I was unaware that these antiglider posts were used in 1940, thought it was more something the Germans came up with later in the war. Perhaps there was concern about a diversionary attack or a raid in 1940. Though important targets would have been miles away from Burntisland, which could of been the bridge, Rosyth Naval Yard etc. Curious. ]]> WW2 Battlefields Today Donibristle http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28420-antiglider-poles-fife.html Hollidays in Normandy 2 years ago http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28318-hollidays-normandy-2-years-ago.html Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:30:25 GMT I don't think it's useful and necessary to translate the couple of words among pics...

Arromanches





Batterie d’Azeville



Cimetière de Beny










Crocodile, Destroyer et Sherman à Bayeux





Grandcamp Maizy





Juno




Mémorial Canadien




Courseulles sur mer

]]> WW2 Battlefields Today GS59 http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28318-hollidays-normandy-2-years-ago.html Brimeux Memorial to Liberation by Canadians http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28276-brimeux-memorial-liberation-canadians.html Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:05:50 GMT Saw this small memorial the other week at Brimeux.

Anyone know anymore?
It's by the old station & at end of Chemin des Candiens
GoogleEarth kmz file also attached
Just found this pdf mentions Brimeux on page 151 & 7 Cdn Recce Regt.
http://cap.estevan.sk.ca/SSR/Photos/...06/CMHQ183.pdf
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]]> WW2 Battlefields Today Owen http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28276-brimeux-memorial-liberation-canadians.html <![CDATA[Crossing the Somme , June 1940. Then & Now]]> http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28268-crossing-somme-june-1940-then-now.html Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:11:11 GMT Using After The Battle's Blitzkrieg In The West by Jean Paul Pallud as my guide.
I took these last week.

This one from page 471.
5 Panzer Division crossed at Pont Remy.
Pictures taken on 6 June 1940.
German engineers built a 16 tonne bridge over the Somme.


]]> WW2 Battlefields Today Owen http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28268-crossing-somme-june-1940-then-now.html <![CDATA[How to get a Then & Now wrong.]]> http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28263-how-get-then-now-wrong.html Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:27:22 GMT On holiday the other week I intended getting a Then & Now of the Grand Vallee near Hangest , where Rommel's lot formed up after crossing the Somme.
Location in this post.
http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/268466-post252.html

This view I was after.

For those with After The Battle , 'Blitzkreig In The West' see page 468.


Well anyway , located one end of the valley sucessfully .
Viewed from the left in the above photo.

When I tried to take a Now off the Then, posted above, I thought I'd got the right place. Until I looked again.
I thought it looked 'odd' when I took it.
But convinced myslef I'd got right valley

I got the wrong valley.
If you look at the ATB book on page 468 you'll see another chalk scrape in the middle distance.
That's the one I took & post just above.
Oh well, better luck next time.

:( ]]> WW2 Battlefields Today Owen http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28263-how-get-then-now-wrong.html The Møvik Fortress, Norway http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28126-m%F8vik-fortress-norway.html Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:18:54 GMT Hello folks. Been meaning to share a couple of photos of a visit I had to the Møvik fortress near Kristiansand, Norway, some time ago. This battery was erected between 1941 and 1944 by the german... Hello folks.
Been meaning to share a couple of photos of a visit I had to the Møvik fortress near Kristiansand, Norway, some time ago.
This battery was erected between 1941 and 1944 by the german navy as one of four coastal defence batteries located at the coast of Kristiansand. The battery was originally called Krooden battery, but was renamed Battery Vara to commemorate a german general who killed during the construction of the battery.
I especially enjoyed visting this battery due to the fact is has a sister battery in Hanstholm, Denmark, which I’ve visited on many occasions. But the battery in Denmark no longer houses the enormous canon as it does in the norwegian one. The germans built both batteries to block off the Skagerrak strait and the sea route to eastern Norway, Kattegat and the Baltic.
The 380 mm Krupp canon is massive. It’s 20 metres long and had a reach of 55 kilometres.
I purchased a german steel helmet there as well, which was found near the area of the battery.
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]]> WW2 Battlefields Today Kjaersgaard http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28126-m%F8vik-fortress-norway.html Normandy Holiday 2010 http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28115-normandy-holiday-2010-a.html Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:57:48 GMT Been back a week, but this is the first time I've had to get my photos sorted. Had a great trip, with good weather, stayed in Sully, which I've been to a few times now, and ended the stay with two nights at the La Fiere Battlefield B&B (more on that later).

Just a few photos to avoid flooding the place (I took 1,100!!)



Iron Mike at La Fiere, caught in dusk sunshine ]]> WW2 Battlefields Today Paul Reed http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28115-normandy-holiday-2010-a.html Help with itinerary? http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28097-help-itinerary.html Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:46:45 GMT Morning everyone All going well next year I hope to make it to UK (research and family), Crete, Wolfsberg, Gallipoli, Rome (work) and Hong Kong (market shopping!). Crete is where my grandfather... Morning everyone

All going well next year I hope to make it to UK (research and family), Crete, Wolfsberg, Gallipoli, Rome (work) and Hong Kong (market shopping!). Crete is where my grandfather was taken POW before being sent to Wolfsberg, and Gallipoli is where his father (my great grandfather) was in WWI. I plan to visit war graves on my journey to pay my respects, but would appreciate some tips on where to go and what to see as I haven’t done a ‘battlefield’ tour before and will not be using a tour guide. :huh:

Cheers
W ]]> WW2 Battlefields Today WhiskeyGolf http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/28097-help-itinerary.html Mount Kehlstein, Berchtesgaden, Germany http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/27982-mount-kehlstein-berchtesgaden-germany.html Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:25:30 GMT Anyone been there?

I'm going over to Europe with Andrea (anywhere I want apparently), for upto two weeks, camping in September as long as it's not got anything to do with 1940 or Dunkirk.

I got an old 'After the Battle' book a few weeks ago that has a good article on the race to the Eagles Nest in it. Lots of Then and Nows etc and wondered if it was worth visiting?

The only other option at the moment seems driving down to the lakes in Italy according the 'her who must be obeyed'.

Your thoughts are mucho appreciated on the Eagles Nest.

Just found an old thread-Please feel free to move it to this one:

http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-bat...htesgaden.html

Cheers ]]> WW2 Battlefields Today Drew5233 http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/27982-mount-kehlstein-berchtesgaden-germany.html