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    Here is a link to my trip to Normandy last year. Below are the descriptions of what each pic is....

    http://s101.photobucket.com/albums/m...gww2/Overlord/


    <st1:date year="2006" day="31" month="5">MAY 31, 2006</st1:date>
    <o></o>
    <st1:country-region><st1>BELGIUM</st1></st1:country-region>
    <o></o>
    2750
    ON THE WAY TO FOY
    <o></o>
    2754 - 2764
    MONUMENT FOR 101<sup>ST</sup> EASY COMPANY
    <o></o>
    2765 - 2775
    101<sup>ST</sup> DELTA COMPANY FOXHOLES IN FOY
    <o></o>
    2776 - 2777
    E COMPANY MACHINE GUN NEST IN FOY
    STANDING IN FOXHOLE LOOKING OVER FIELD
    <o></o>
    2779 - 2784
    IN WOODS IN FOY OVERLOOKING NOVILLE WHERE GUERNERE IS LOOKING OUT WITH BABE HEFRON IN DOCUMENTARY
    <o></o>
    2789 - 2794
    GERMAN CEMETARY
    <o></o>
    2795 - 2797
    FOY TEMPORARY AMERICAN CEMETARY
    <o></o>
    <st1:date year="2006" day="1" month="6">JUNE 1, 2006</st1:date>

    <o></o>
    <st1:country-region><st1>BELGIUM</st1></st1:country-region>
    <o></o>
    2795 - 2833
    116<sup>TH</sup> PANZER DIVISION PANTHER TANK IN HOUFFALIZE
    <o></o>
    2834 - 2837
    MISC IN CHERAIN
    <o></o>
    2839
    MISC HOUSE
    <o></o>
    2844
    MISC WOODS
    <o></o>
    KAMPFGRUPPE PEIPER LOSHEIM TO LA GLEIZE (P66 A TOUR OF THE BULDGE BATTLE FIELD)
    <o></o>
    2847 – 2852
    <st1><st1>SCHEID</st1> <st1>RAILROAD</st1><st1> BRIDGE</st1></st1> THAT WAS BLOWN. HE SWUNG DOWN THE DIRT ROAD TO CROSS THE TRACKS.
    <o></o>
    2857 – 2860
    CAFÉ PALM WAS HIS HQ (SEE HAND OUT PG2)
    <o></o>
    2864
    READ PLAQUE
    <o></o>
    2866 – 2874
    HONSFELD. PG 73 A TOUR OF THE BULDGE BATTLE FIELD.
    <o></o>
    2875
    GRANT YAGER’S BAZOOKA TEAM WAS BEHIND A BERM WHERE THE HOUSE ON THE LEFT IS. HE FIRED AT PEIPER’S LEAD TANK FROM 100 YARDS AS IT ENTERED BULLINGENAND SHOT THE MEN AS THEY ESCAPED. AT THE FORK BEHIND THE BUSHESWAS BERNARD PAPPEL’S 50 <st1:state><st1>CAL </st1></st1:state>MACHINE GUN. BOTH WERE TAKEN PRISONERS AND PAPPEL WAS SHOT IN THE FIELD OF TO THE LEFT.
    <o></o>
    2878
    FIELD WHERE PAPPEL’S MACHINE GUN WAS.
    <o></o>
    2881 – 2912
    PLACE WHERE MALMEDY MASSACRE OCCURRED.
    <o></o>
    2902 – 2905
    WIDE VIEW OF FIELD WHERE MALMEDY MASSACRE OCCURRED.
    <o></o>
    2881
    MASSACRE HAPPENED IN FIELD TO LEFT OF THIS HOUSE
    <o></o>
    2906 – 2909
    PICTURES OF MASSACRE
    <o></o>
    2910 – 2912
    MONUMENT FOR GI’S MURDERED BY AN SS OBERSCHARFUHRER PAUL OCHMANN AND SS STURMMANN SUESS (TOUR OF BULDGE <st1:city><st1>BATTLE</st1></st1:city> FIELD PG 85)
    <o></o>
    2913 – 2914 AND 2933 - 2935
    GENERAL TIMBERLAKE’S HQ AT LIGNEUVILLE
    <o></o>
    2924 – 2930
    REAL SPOT AT THE TOP OF THE ROAD WHERE SS OBERSCHARFUHRER PAUL OCHMANN KILLED THE PRISONERS FROM PICS 2910 – 2912
    <o></o>
    2937 – 3010
    MUSEAM POTEAU 44
    <o></o>
    3011 – 3013
    ANTIONE FARM. SS STURMBANNFUHRER GUSTAV KNITTEL’S COMMAND POST DURING THE ATTACKS TOWARD THE WESTERN EDGE OF STAVELOT. THE EAST GABLE OF THE HOUSE STILL SHOWS ITS GUNFIRE DAMAGE
    (TOUR OF BULDGE BATTLE FIELD PG 95)
    <o></o>
    3014 – 3016
    HOTEL LIFRANGE. THE AMERICANS BLOCKED THE ROAD AT THIS POINT WHILE THE 51<sup>ST</sup> ENGINEER COMBAT BATTALION WIRED THE <st1><st1>AMBLEVE</st1> <st1>RIVER</st1><st1> BRIDGE</st1></st1> FOR DETONATION. THIS WAS TO STOP PEIPER FROM MOVING THRU TROIS PONTS (TOUR OF BULDGE <st1:city><st1>BATTLE</st1></st1:city>FIELD PG 95)
    <o></o>
    3020 – 3058
    KING TIGER 213 BELONGING TO OBERSTURMFUHRER RUDOLF DOLLINGER WAS ABANDONED BY KAMPFGRUPPE PEIPER IN LA GLEIZE. IT WAS SAVED FROM THE CUTTING TORCH WHEN MADAME JENNY GEENEN-DEWEZ BOUGHT IT IN JULY 1945 FROM THE AMERICAN TROOPS CLEARING WRECKAGE FROM THE VILLAGE FOR A BOTTLE OF GENUINE FRENCH <st1:city><st1>COGNAC</st1></st1:city> ITS 88 MM BAREL WAS REPLACED IN 1972 BY A 75 MM BAREL FROM A PANTHER TANK. THE MUZZLE BREAK CAME FROM ONE OF THE PANTHERS DISGUISED AS AN M10 TANK DESTROYER FOR SKORZENYS TANK BRIGADE 150.
    <o></o>
    3060 – 3068
    THEN AND NOW PICS
    <o></o>
    3069
    WAR DAMAGE
    <o></o>
    3070 - 3078
    THEN AND NOW PICS
    <o></o>
    <st1:date year="2006" day="2" month="6">JUNE 2, 2006</st1:date><o></o>
    <o></o>
    <st1:country-region><st1>BELGIUM</st1></st1:country-region>AND LUXENBOURG
    <o></o>
    TOUR BY JEAN MULLER ON JUNE 2 AND JUNE 3

    <o></o>
    3079
    250 POUND BOMB CRATER POSSIBLY FROM A P-38 LIGHTNING
    <o></o>
    3080 – 3083
    GERMAN 88
    <o></o>
    3082 – 3083
    GERMAN 105 MM HOWITZER
    <o></o>
    3084 – 3092
    M4 <st1:city><st1>SHERMAN</st1></st1:city> TANK SERIEL #724 BUILT BY <st1:city><st1>LIMA</st1></st1:city> LOCAMOTIVE WORKS. THIS TANK WAS THE 224<sup>TH</sup> TANK THEY MADE BECAUSE THEY STARTED AT SERIEL NUMBER 500. TANK WAS IN WILTZ <st1:country-region><st1>LUXEMBOURG</st1></st1:country-region>
    <o></o>
    3093 – 3094
    2400 YR OLD BASE OF A <st1><st1>ROMAN</st1><st1> TOWER</st1></st1> IN <st1:country-region><st1>LUXEMBOURG</st1></st1:country-region>
    <o></o>
    3096 – 3104
    DETECTING ON HILL508 IN THE BORSCHIED TRIANGLE IN LUXEMBOURGWHERE THE 80<sup>TH</sup> <st1:country-region><st1>US</st1></st1:country-region> INFANTRY 1<sup>ST</sup> AND 2<sup>ND</sup> BATTALIONS FOUGHT THE 1<sup>ST</sup> AND 3<sup>RD</sup> BATTALIONS OF THE PANZER LEHR COMPANY
    <o></o>
    3105 – 3106
    LOOKING DOWN HILL 508
    <o></o>
    3107 – 3108
    TREES ON HILL 508 THAT WERE HIT BY ARTILLARY FIRE
    <o></o>
    3109 – 3135
    LOOKING AT HILL 508 FROM A DISTANCE. THE GERMANS OCCUPIED THE HILL ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE VALLEY AND THE AMERICANS ON THE HILL ON THE RIGHT
    <o></o>
    3136 – 3137
    LOOKING UP FROM THE BOTTOM OF HILL 508
    <o></o>
    3138 – 3142
    STUFF FROM DIG SPOT 1
    <o></o>
    3143 – 3147
    STUFF FROM DIG SPOT 2
    <o></o>
    <st1:date year="2006" day="3" month="6">JUNE 3, 2006</st1:date><o></o>
    <o></o>
    <st1:country-region><st1>BELGIUM</st1></st1:country-region> AND LUXENBOURG
    <o></o>
    3152 – 3153
    PROFILE OF HILL 508 IN <st1:country-region><st1>LUXEMBOURG</st1></st1:country-region>
    <o></o>
    3154
    TREE THAT AXE HEAD WAS FOUND NEXT TO
    <o></o>
    3155
    WALKING TO DIG MG NEST 4
    <o></o>
    3156
    30 <st1:state><st1>CAL</st1></st1:state> MACHINE GUN CARTRIDGE
    <o></o>
    3158
    STUFF FROM DIG SPOT 3
    <o></o>
    3160
    STUFF I FOUND
    <o></o>
    3162
    STUFF FROM DIG SPOT 4

    3164 – 3175
    FIRST BUNKER WE SAW FROM THE SIEGFRIED LINE. THIS IS WHERE I GOT PIECE OF PIPE THAT WAS PART OF THE PIPE THAT WOULD COLLECT WATER FROM THE ROOF AND BRING IT INTO THE BUNKER. ALSO GOT THE REBAR
    FROM THIS BUNKER.
    <o></o>
    3178 – 3182
    2<sup>ND</sup> BUNKER. DESTROYED BY COMBAT ENGINEERS. IT WAS A DOUBLE MACHINE GUN BUNKER WHOSE PURPOSE WAS TO COVER THE ROAD. THE CEILING WAS 2 METERS THICK
    <o></o>
    3183 – 3189
    3<sup>RD</sup> BUNKER
    <o></o>
    3190 - 3193
    11<sup>TH</sup> CENTURY CASTLE THAT WAS OCCUPIED BY A GERMAN MORTOR PLATOON. ONE <st1:country-region><st1>US</st1></st1:country-region> SOLDIER WAS OUT WALKING AROUND AND FOUND IT. HE KILLED EVERYONE WITH HIS GARANDE AND WAS AWARDED THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS.
    <o></o>
    3197 – 3201
    <st1><st1>BORSHIED</st1><st1> CASTLE</st1></st1>
    <o></o>
    3203 – 3203
    GERMAN REST POSITION IN BORSHIED TRIANGLE
    <o></o>
    3208 – 3211
    HILL 508. GERMANS ON LEFT AMERICANS ON RIGHT
    <o></o>
    3212 – 3220
    GERMAN AID STATION. BOTTLES CONTAINED BLOOD AND SOME BOTTLES WERE WEHRMACHT BEER BOTTLES. ALSO SHOWN ARE BONES AND BOOT
    PIECES.THE GERMAN WOUNDED WERE BROUGHT TO THIS AID STATION. THE GERMANS THAT DIED WERE BURIED BY <st1:country-region><st1>US</st1></st1:country-region> COMBAT ENGINEERS
    <o></o>
    <st1:date year="2006" day="4" month="6">JUNE 4, 2006</st1:date>

    <o></o>
    <st1:state><st1>NORMANDY</st1></st1:state>
    <o></o>
    3221
    BLUFF OVERLOOKING<st1><st1> OMAHA</st1><st1> BEACH</st1></st1>
    <o></o>
    3222 – 3234
    BUNKER AT THE BASE OF THE BLUFF
    <o></o>
    3235 – 3236
    <st1><st1>OMAHA</st1> <st1>BEACH</st1></st1> FROM TOP OF THE BLUFF ABOVE THE BUNKER
    <o></o>
    3237
    PLAQUE FOR AN AIRFIELD
    <o></o>
    3238 – 3302
    C47 FLYBY
    <o></o>
    3304
    <st1><st1>OMAHA</st1><st1> BEACH</st1></st1>
    <o></o>
    3305 – 3306
    SHRAPNEL FROM A FARM FILED I FOUND ON TOP OF THE BLUFF OVERLOOKING <st1><st1>OMAHA</st1><st1> BEACH</st1></st1>
    <o></o>
    <st1:date year="2006" day="5" month="6">JUNE 5, 2006</st1:date>

    <o></o>
    3308
    OUR HOTEL AT <st1><st1>OMAHA</st1><st1> BEACH</st1></st1> THE HOTEL WAS ON THE ST.LAURANT DRAW (ONE OF THE 4 CAUSEWAYS)
    <o></o>
    3309 – 3310
    FIRST AMERICAN CEMETARY ON <st1><st1>OMAHA</st1><st1> BEACH</st1></st1>
    <o></o>
    3312 – 3315
    POINT DU HOC

    <o></o>3316 - 3338
    TOWN OF <st1:city><st1>ARROMANCHES</st1></st1:city><st1><st1> GOLD</st1><st1> BEACH</st1></st1><st1><st1> MULBERRY</st1><st1> HARBOR</st1></st1>
    <o></o>
    3228 – 3229
    BILL PRICE. A VET FROM D DAY THAT WAS ON THE MERCHANT SHIP INNERTON THAT HELPED TO FORM THE OUTER BREAKWALL FOR THE <st1><st1>MULLBERRY</st1><st1> HARBOR</st1></st1>. HE ALSO MANNED A LOW FLYING AA GUN IN THE ROYAL NAVY
    <o></o>
    3339 – 3342
    FOLLOWING A HALF TRACK LEAVING ARROMANCHES
    <o></o>
    3343 – 3378
    THE LONGUES <st1>BATTERY</st1> AND AMMO BUNKERS
    <o></o>
    3368 – 3376
    OBSERVATION AND FIRING BUNLERS FROM THE MOVIE “THE LONGEST DAY” WHERE WERNER PLOUSK SAW THE INVASION AND TELEPHONED THAT IT WAS HAPPENING
    <o></o>
    3379 – 3393
    D DAY WRECKS MUSEAUM
    <o></o>
    <st1:date year="2006" day="6" month="6">JUNE 6, 2006</st1:date>

    3402 – 3455
    D DAY <st1:city><st1>SUNRISE</st1></st1:city> 0600 – 0700 HOURS
    <o></o>
    3424 – 3455
    RE ENACTORS
    <o></o>
    3456 – 3461
    D DAY <st1:city><st1>OMAHA</st1></st1:city> MUSEAM
    <o></o>
    3462 – 3463
    INDIAN 500 MOTOR CYCLE
    <o></o>
    3465 - 3502
    POINT DU HOC
    <o></o>
    3503 – 3504
    MOTORCYLCE
    <o></o>
    3505 – 3506
    ON THE WAY TO ST MERE EGLISE
    <o></o>
    3512 – 3532
    PLACE TOCCOA. ON THE NIGHT ON THE D DAY AIRDROP THIS CHURCH IN ANGOVILLE AU PLAIN SERVED AS AN AID STATION AND CHANGED HANDS MANY TIMES. BOTH US AND GERMANS WERE TREATED HERE. A GERMAN SNIPER WAS IN THE TOWER AND AFTER HOURS GAVE UP. THE DARK STAINS ON THE BENCHES ARE BLOOD FROM THE SOLDIERS.
    <o></o>
    3533 – 3534
    <st1:state><st1>COL</st1></st1:state> SINKS COMMAND POST. THE MIDDLE DOOR IS WHERE THE SOLDIER IN STANDING WITH A MOHAWK
    <o></o>
    3535
    HEDGE ROW
    <o></o>
    3536
    DROP ZONE DELTA FOR THE 101<sup>ST</sup> AB
    <o></o>
    3537 – 3540
    THIS BARN WAS 101<sup>ST</sup> FIRST HQ
    <o></o>
    3545 – 3546
    FIELD WHERE GLIDER CRASHED UPSIDE DOWN WITH THE PIC WITH THE BODIES LAYING NEXT TO IT. THIS LOCATION IS SOUTH OF THE TOWN OF HOLDY
    <o></o>
    3547
    DOC LANGS 1<sup>ST</sup> AID STATION
    <o></o>
    3449 – 3554
    MARIE ST DUMONT
    <o></o>
    3555 – 3574
    AMERICAN CEMETARY IN <st1:state><st1>NORMANDY</st1></st1:state>
    <o></o>
    3558 – 3559 AND 3561
    CHET GRAHAM AT THE GRAVE OF HIS FRIEND FRED GILLESPIE. FRED LOOKED AROUND THE CORNER OF A BUILDING AND HIS HEAD WAS TAKEN OFF BY A GERMAN 88 “HIS BODY WAS THERE MINUS HIS HEAD” THIS HAPPENED IIN THE TOWN OF <st1:city><st1>PICAUVILLE

    </st1></st1:city> <st1:date year="2006" day="7" month="6">JUNE 7, 2006</st1:date>

    <o></o>
    3576 – 3596
    ST MERE EGLISE
    JOHN STEELE HANGING FROM THE STEEPLE
    <o></o>
    3586
    TOWN HALL IN ST MERE EGLISE WHERE 1<sup>ST</sup> AMERICAN FLAG FLEW ON THE MORNING OF <st1:date year="1944" day="6" month="6">6/6/44</st1:date> @ 0430
    <o></o>
    3596
    AIRBORNE MUSEAM IN ST MERE EGLISE
    <o></o>
    3597 – 3598
    GENERAL GAVINS FOXHOLE
    <o></o>
    3599 – 3613
    BRECOURT MANOR
    GUNS WERE IN THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE FIELD
    <o></o>
    3610 – 3613
    E COMPANY VIEW OF FIELD WHERE GUNS WERE BEFORE THEY ATTACKED
    <o></o>
    3614 – 3621
    <st1><st1>UTAH</st1><st1> BEACH</st1></st1>
    Last edited by anythingww2; 08-14-2007, 07:40 PM.

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