Seine Crossing, Vernon. 1944 & 2007.

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  1. Ramiles

    Ramiles Researching 9th Lancers, 24th L and SRY

    There's a nice page here: http://vernon-visite.org/rgb3/seine3_1944.shtml
    on Operation Neptune: the British forces cross the Seine

    And in ref to my post #34 above according to this link: http://vernon-visite.org/rgb3/seine3_1944.shtml
    August 1944, Operation Neptune: the British forces cross the Seine - page 3

    The IWM pic at: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205206279
    Of Sherman tanks crossing a Bailey bridge over the Seine at Vernon, 28 August 1944.

    Is [17] August 27 in the evening (Sunday, August 27 1944) : the 4th / 7th Royal Dragoon Guards tanks on the bridge (view from Vernonnet)
    http://vernon-visite.org/pics/autre/crossing5.jpg

    If this is the same pic (the IWM is prehaps for "publicity" i.e. severely truncated just to show the cheerful chap on the tank and less of the terribly wrecked Vernon town and old bridge around?)

    If correct though, it gives more detail to the IWM pic and suggests this might be Sunday, August 27 1944 and not 28 August 1944.

    Oddly.... something though is wrong there, not sure which to trust ;)

    Rm.
     
  2. toki2

    toki2 Junior Member

    Thanks. I can see that it was a big operation and looking at the maps of the armies approaching the Seine, they had to cut across the lines of the US 19th Corps. I have ordered Ken Ford's 'Assault Crossing' which I believe gives a very detailed account of the operation.
     
  3. Trux

    Trux 21 AG

    This is only one of twenty convoys totalling some 6000 vehicles.

    Ken Ford is good on the actual operations he writes about. He does not generally include the planning and the small details. You can obtain the original document from which he gets much of his information.

    'Operation Plunder'. 12 Corps crossing the Rhine. BAOR Battlefield Tour 1947. Available from MLRS although now only as CD or download. Probably cheaper to get a member to copy the PRO copy. The maps are very good.

    Lots of good photos on the IWM website.

    Mike
     
  4. Noel Burgess

    Noel Burgess Senior Member

    The "Battlefield Historian" website is an alternative source of a download of battlefield tours [no connection to owners]
    Noel
     
  5. Trux

    Trux 21 AG

    Well worth knowing. I will treat myself at those prices. Thanks.

    Mike
     
  6. Trackfrower

    Trackfrower Member

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