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31-01-2007, 09:32 AM
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| Top Moose   Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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 | Budapest trip, photos added. Just heard one of my mates is getting married in Budapest in September. We've been invited. Too good an opportunity to pass up to visit an Eastern Front battlefield.  Apart from this Soviet Memorial anything else to see WW2 related? Budapest - Soviet War Memorial Looks like might have to read this. The Siege of Budapest Quote:
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31-01-2007, 02:11 PM
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 | Museum of Military History and so called House of Terror (KÖZÉP- ÉS KELET-EURÓPAI TÖRTÉNELEM ÉS TÁRSADALOM KUTATÁSÁÉRT KÖZALAPÍTVÁNY)
__________________ "It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." Robert E. Lee "I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept my faith" 2 Timothy 4:7 |
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23-03-2007, 01:45 PM
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| Top Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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| Call me stupid but I can't locate the Soviet Memorial , help! I think this is it, 47°30'16.02"N 19° 3'1.51"E. Can't see it on GE but there are links to photos of it. Last edited by Owen; 23-03-2007 at 01:48 PM. |
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23-03-2007, 01:59 PM
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__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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23-03-2007, 02:24 PM
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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24-03-2007, 10:13 AM
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| Top Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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| Found some footage of the battle, starts off in Courland though. YouTube - Battle of Budapest similar footage here without commentery YouTube - The battle and supplies of Budapest= YouTube - Hungary 1944 Pest county To be honest it could be anywhere on the Eastern Front. Last edited by Owen; 24-03-2007 at 10:18 AM. |
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05-04-2007, 08:30 AM
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| Thanks to a link from AMVAS found this rather interesting book. Military Chronicles Series MCS-010 The Sturm of Budapest. Elite forces of a Reich on www.Aviapress.com. Model kits, Military Books and Magazines - the choice of the whole internet. |
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30-05-2007, 02:19 PM
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| Top Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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| Can't see us going on this trip either. Mate had problems booking wedding. Now that he has, the plane tickets have shot up to Ł318.96 (inclusive of taxes etc etc)for the two of us. Back in January we could have done it for about Ł125. I can't justify Ł318 for a weekend when for less we could a family holiday for a week in Normandy in October. |
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