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| Top Moose ![]() Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | My Ardennes Trip, February 2008 Just got back today from a week at Trois Ponts , Belgium. Have many photos to post but it's getting late and it's been a long day travelling back so I'll just post these of the La Gleize King Tiger for now. Went to see it on the Sunday when the Museum was open. Later in the week I accidentally deleted the front view I took so had to pop back and retake some more. It was the only wet day we had that's why some photos are in sunshine others in drizzle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| Ubique ![]() Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: UK/France
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![]() ![]() ![]() | Good photos Owen - La Gleize is one of my favourite places in the Ardennes.
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![]() | Thanks for posting the pics, Owen. I've visited La Gleize many times over the years and it's good to see the King Tiger preserved on its original battlefield. ( Incidentally, the story goes that the Tiger 'cost' the village a bottle of cognac - which must be the militaria bargain of all time and a great investment in view of the numbers of battlefield tourists who visit every year ) |
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| Top Moose ![]() Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Trois Ponts views Here are some from Trois Ponts, memorials to the Us Army that fought there, the Belguim civilians killed there , a few "Then & Nows" from 1940, from ATB Blitzkrieg In The West and a GMC that was outside the supermarket on Friday. Read about the 51st Engineers here. http://www.usace.army.mil/publicatio...1-38/basic.pdf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| Top Moose ![]() Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | As for King Tiger read here. Restoration of 213 Quote:
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| Ubique ![]() Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: UK/France
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![]() ![]() ![]() | Excellent Then & Nows mate!
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![]() ![]() ![]() | fantastic pics mate. really well done. Great to see you back!
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