Had an email from the owner of this blog who has put up some very interesting photos of Arromanches and soldiers/units who were there: Arromanches1944's blog - Arromanches 1944 - Skyrock.com
I wish I'd found 300 WW2 photographs in my Granddad's basement... Love the one of the chaps smoking next to the mine field & no smoking sign, but that cheesy grin from the life-jacketed Dday Bren Gunner on page one makes it the pick of the bunch for me.
Dispatch rider. Seems very proud. Well eqiped to, with his bike boots, guantlets and Jerkin. Great pictures.
What some utterly brilliant photos. Someone tell Rich P about the DR on the Aerial in there. I expect Iain would like to see the Redcaps too.
'Tommies in helmets', for me. All shapes and sizes. Lovely shot. An excellent archive. Thanks for sharing. Bod
Great photos, the RN Sub-Lieutenant looks very businesslike and is exactly what you expect a Navy officer to look like.
I missed this thread first time around. Thanks chaps. Wonderful uniform detail shots. Wonder if he's got any more motor-bikey pictures ?
I've just posted a couple of 1944 motorbike pictures on the blog - thanks a lot for visiting the blog and for your comments on this forum. As you might have understood, my sole aim is to share these photographs with as many people as possible as a tribute to the men who sailed across the Channel to free Europe from German rule.
Excellent stuff and thanks for sharing them. Welcome to the forum by the way. The second bike is a BSA M20, I believe, and the Norton is a 16H. Cheers, Bod Edit: I've had a quick look and I reckon the RAF bike is a Harley-Davidson
A warm welcome deejay, I think the comments above say it all about your excellent photos. Great stuff & thanks for sharing 'em. Cheers, Adam.
Glad you made it here - we all thought your website was excellent, and it was certainly generous to publish all those great photos.
Thanks for posting the extra images Deejay. The detail in these shots is amazing and of course they're very much 'in theatre' Nothing really that I can add to Rob van den Brink's identifications. Have you thought of offering higher resolution copies for sale ? Rich
Can anyone point me in the right direction to open this link please. http://arromanches1944.skyrock.com/ Many thanks Colin.
The owner of this site is a member here and I have mailed him - looks like a free site, so he could have exceeded his allowed bandwith.
I do hope so as I was wondering why I could not open the link. Reading the replies the photos are well worth looking at. Regards Tom