Route To Victory Event May 3rd to 5th 2008.

They had a limber but left it off for the demo.
Exiting the area, the Quad got stuck.

 

Just a few of the re-enactors there.

 

A desert Bedford.


Another bike,


and a "pre-war car in military use", what is it, an Austin...?

 

After a few hours geting plastered in mud & kids getting bit bored we pooped home to return for the air display that started about 16.00.
We didn't go back in but stayed out on the lane.
I imagined I was a Panzerpaust armed German with this one.
Black & white to give a period feel.

 

The 25 Pdrs were out firing again with the Auster spotting for them.

 

While the Spitfire was zooming overhead (that's the Merlin engine you can hear, not the Stuart's) these vehicles left the site.
Looks like a Norman lane in the bocage with a bit of imagination.


You can just hear me on this one, "Stand back."

 

Quiet tricky to keep a Spitfire in the frame but this is the best one.

 

After the Spit came a C-47 Skytrain/ DC-3 Dakota , dropped 8 paras in two drops.
First drop they were dressed as US Paras, second drop as British.
I just caught the first lot exiting the plane.
Then once they were all down the Dakota flew overhead.

 

Local news report about the show.
Reenactment Weekend Not Daunted By Rain (from The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)