VE Day

Discussion in 'All Anniversaries' started by LRusso216, May 8, 2009.

  1. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    Exercise walk this Friday will be routed to take in a couple of cemeteries that have CWGC burials within.
    Personal choice, but more appropriate for me than any pomp and circumstance. I'm eternally grateful to all those folks in the ground all over the world that didn't beat the clock, and paying my respects to them, while still able, will always be an essential journey.

    Kind regards, have a good one folks, always,

    Jim.
     
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  2. The Cooler King

    The Cooler King Elite Member

  3. Robert-w

    Robert-w Banned

    Victory celebrations in France 1945. These may be of interest
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  4. Robert-w

    Robert-w Banned

    During the Victory parade through Paris a Storch flew over it. Storchs were built in France and after the war a re-engined version was built and sold under a French name.
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  5. Robert-w

    Robert-w Banned

    More shots of the Paris victory parade
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  6. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Happy VE Day +76 years.

    A lot wetter here than last year.
     
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  7. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

  8. Ramiles

    Ramiles Researching 9th Lancers, 24th L and SRY

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  9. 51highland

    51highland Very Senior Member

    Just a small part of the cost of Victory in Europe. 5th Camerons casualties from October 1942 to May 1945. Total 1869.
     

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  10. AB64

    AB64 Senior Member

    A few bits that may be relevant, no idea on the first photo - a tipsy artistic squaddie and some parachute flares maybe

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  11. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

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    My dad's souvenir. I'm not sure that it quite compensated for being classified 'Far East 1' . It didn't stop a grateful government from calling many 'Duration of Emergency' servicemen back to fight in Korea either.
     
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