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    #46
    I've been to and loved these. Think there is a trend here?

    Gettysburg (Live only 30 mins away!!)
    Ball's Bluff
    Antietam
    Manassas
    7 days battles around Richmond
    Fredericksburg
    Chancellorsville
    Chickamauga
    Missionary Ridge
    Petersburg
    Sayler's Creek
    Appomattox
    Yorktown
    Valley Forge (not a battlefield, but cool site!)

    Want to get to Europe and see many there!! Hopefully one day! Mike.

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      #47
      I've been to the Ardennes twice and my favorite spot is the heights above Stavelot at night. You can almost feel a presence of someone or something. Also the Hotel Du Moulin in Ligneville is a great place to stay and EAT! Also hotel d' Ambleive in Stavelot is nice as well.
      I also agree that Gettyburg is very somber. The battlefield is eerie even on a sunny summer day. To me it's a lonely place. the battlefield that is. While not a battlefied the German town of Monschau near the Belgian border is beautiful.

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        #48
        Originally posted by CIB View Post
        Can anyone I.D. this piece of real estate? This should be an automatic one looker?

        I took this 6 JUNE 1999 from an altitude of 1000ft. AGL. As the primary JumpMaster I put out about 8 passes of jumpers, then myself.
        Our DZ was about a KM from this site.

        You can see the C-130 platform and exit door.
        "-Easy peasy", it's Pointe du Hoc. OMAHA beach; BAKER sector to the left in picture and CHARLIE sector to the right.

        As to the thread question.

        -Ardennes; Peiper attack and retreat route allong Rollbahn D. All time favourite battlefield.
        -1.SS Pz.Kps battlefields in Normandy, especially 12.SS Pz.Div. "HJ" June/July 1944 battles
        -Suomussalmi and Raate road (Finland)
        -Market-Garden area (NL).
        -German 1940 attack route through France & Belgium. Especially Dinant-Sedan area.
        -Ypres (Belgium)
        -Verdun (France)
        -Berlin

        On the wish list:
        -The Falklands
        -Estonia/Lithuania/Latvia and the battlefields of III.SS-Pz.Kps (Germ.) especially Narwa area in Estonia/Russia.
        -Seelow heights and Halbe pocket
        -Italy (Sicily, Monte Cassino, Anzio etc).
        -Crete
        -The Karelian Isthmus (Finland & Russia).
        -Hurtgen forest
        -Kursk
        -Tarawa
        -Northern Africa battlefields.
        -American Civil War battlefield sites (since I'm European it's not that easily accessible but having recently watched Ken Burns fascinating documentary series I realise I have to plan a longer stay in the US to see the most important sites).
        Last edited by Sigurd Helge; 12-29-2009, 05:12 PM.

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          #49
          Sig, when you come over, let me know and I will give you a good personal tour of Gettysburg! Mike.

          Originally posted by Sigurd Helge View Post
          "-Easy peasy", it's Pointe du Hoc. OMAHA beach; BAKER sector to the left in picture and CHARLIE sector to the right.

          As to the thread question.

          -Ardennes; Peiper attack and retreat route allong Rollbahn D. All time favourite battlefield.
          -1.SS Pz.Kps battlefields in Normandy, especially 12.SS Pz.Div. "HJ" June/July 1944 battles
          -Suomussalmi and Raate road (Finland)
          -Market-Garden area (NL).
          -German 1940 attack route through France & Belgium. Especially Dinant-Sedan area.
          -Ypres (Belgium)
          -Verdun (France)
          -Berlin

          On the wish list:
          -The Falklands
          -Estonia/Lithuania/Latvia and the battlefields of III.SS-Pz.Kps (Germ.) especially Narwa area in Estonia/Russia.
          -Seelow heights and Halbe pocket
          -Italy (Sicily, Monte Cassino, Anzio etc).
          -Crete
          -The Karelian Isthmus (Finland & Russia).
          -Hurtgen forest
          -Kursk
          -Tarawa
          -Northern Africa battlefields.
          -American Civil War battlefield sites (since I'm European it's not that easily accessible but having recently watched Ken Burns fascinating documentary series I realise I have to plan a longer stay in the US to see the most important sites).

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            #50
            Favorite battlefield

            Since I have never been out of the US, it would have to be Gettysburg. I went after the Max show in 2008. The national parks in Gettysburg close at 10 PM. You must be out of the park by then. We stayed at the Cashtown Inn for four nights. I did not believe in the paranormal until our stay in Gettysburg. Anyone can email me at smitty@san.rr.com for pictures of Gettysburg. If you want my personal experiences and pictures just ask, and I will send them to you. Smitty.

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              #51
              In the "West":
              - Shiloh
              - Vicksburg
              - Stones River
              - Perryville
              - Franklin
              - Mill Springs
              - Chickamauga
              - Lookout Mountain/Chattanooga
              - Allatoona Pass
              - Kennesaw Mountain
              - Picketts Mill

              In the "East":
              - Gettysburg
              - Antietam
              - Harper's Ferry
              - Mannassas
              - Fredericksburg
              - Chancellorsville
              - The Wilderness
              - Spottsylvania
              - Petersburg
              - Saylors Creek
              - Appomatox

              Spent the night at many of the sites on this list over the years...And numerous smaller sites in between. Whew!

              I was a pain in the ass as a kid travelling with my folks back in the `60s. Every other kid wanted to stop at the theme parks and tourist traps...I hollered to stop and read every historical marker.

              I'd love to visit Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Pelelieu. Managed to sneak in a hike around the battlefield on Hong Kong Island during a recent business trip.

              Paul
              Last edited by Paul McKee; 12-29-2009, 08:49 PM.

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                #52
                Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, and Guilford Courthouse!

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                  #53
                  Originally posted by 1corps View Post
                  Sig, when you come over, let me know and I will give you a good personal tour of Gettysburg! Mike.
                  Thanks Mike, that is extremely generous of you!!!
                  I happily and very gratefully accept your offer!

                  No immediate travel plans but I promise to let you know when I plan to come over.

                  Best wishes for 2010 from Sweden!

                  The very best regards from a very cold and snowy Sweden!

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                    #54
                    Normandy this year with my mates!simply fantastic!!digging on utah meeting up with a 501 d-day vet and driving around the Normandy countryside!!! simply fantastic!!!!!

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                      #55
                      Berlin last year was fab,you can tour the huge flak encasements.The feeling
                      of being in the centre of it all beats any other place.

                      Andy

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                        #56
                        My favorite visit is always deveils den. One way in ...one way out, a little hard to find if youve never been there,but id rather stay there all day and feel the vibes than mess with the rest. Gburg is about 27 miles in a one way circle of roads ...Besides i live just down the road. There are several places to buy stuff , but rather than act the shill ...it, or make it easy for you ...it will suffice to say, to look around while you are there. At least 1 shop and one museum worth visiting ...take your exchanged euros, and be loaded for bear. Nothing there is cheap in nazi stuff. It sells 3 to one over civil war crapola, wich is in a slump right now, and also will be next year also.

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                          #57
                          I've been fortunate enough to visit many battlefield sites around the traps...Gettysburg rates very high (the Americans really know how to maintain their historical sites! Great job guys...) , Bunker Hill, Concord and Lexington in Mass are very interesting...

                          In the UK the battlefield of Naisby and Hastings...In Europe, Normandy from the Beaches to St Mer Eglise and Falaise; Arnhem and Oosterbeek, and Berlin are excellent, Verdun in France is amazing (and food's unbelievable!) with the forts and remnants of towns that were moonscaped by artillery!

                          In Asia, Kanchanaburi in Thailand (war cemeteries from the builders of the bridge on the Kwai River), Singapore's forts are interesting, and not battlefields but the 38th parallel border point in Korea, and in Japan Tokyo museums and the Yasakuni shrine, and the Battlefields outside Osaka castle!

                          I'm looking forward to visiting many of Russian WWII battlefields later this year!
                          Cheers, Steve
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                          "Next to a battle lost, the saddest thing is a battle won." Arthur Wellesley — Duke of Wellington

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                            #58
                            For me I have yet to see:

                            Kursk
                            Falaise
                            Mannerheim Line
                            Middle Earth

                            Nick

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                              #59
                              Back in November I did a little Civil War battlefield hopping, and visited four of my favorite Kentucky "Orphan" Brigade sites in one day. After leaving a living history event in Nashville, we stopped by the Stones River National Battlefield (I hadn't been there in many years), then headed south driving past Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain (didn't stop), then detoured to Chickamauga. The main park drive goes right past the area where the 4th and 6th Kentucky Regiments captured a section of Bridges' Illinois Battery. Then south on I-75, which at the battlefield of Resaca goes right over top of where the 4th Kentucky Regiment was in line (unfortunately these trenches were obliterated by the expressway construction, but others are still there), and ended up in Jonesboro, GA, where I paid a nighttime visit to the Pat Cleburne Cemetery where many of the Confederates killed at Jonesboro are buried.
                              sigpicFacebook "Tigers in the Ardennes" book page
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                                #60
                                Originally posted by Greg Walden View Post
                                After leaving a living history event in Nashville,...
                                Hi Greg,
                                Were you at the event that was held at Fort Negley?
                                http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/...ghlight=negley

                                Paul

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