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Visit to Normandy photos - 9/5/2016 3:52:45 AM   
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/5/2016 3:57:16 AM   
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/5/2016 4:03:41 AM   
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/5/2016 4:12:07 AM   
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/5/2016 4:16:29 AM   
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/5/2016 4:24:18 AM   
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/5/2016 4:27:47 AM   
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/5/2016 3:29:02 PM   
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/5/2016 5:11:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		Normandy has changed very much since D day..On that day most of the beach was covered with flat rocks the size of a large hamburger..Today is is mostly marble-sized...The hedgerows which used to be just behind the beaches are now gone.

BTW, the weapon shown above slung on the front of the Wehrmacht dummy is a SturmGewehr 42-44, which the Kalishnikov was based on.
The German belt buckle reads "Gott Mit Uns", designating regular army use.

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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/5/2016 5:25:36 PM   
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Thanks for posting!

It must be eerie walking on those beaches...

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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/5/2016 6:06:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		Have you also seen the railgun ? It was in a smaller museum not ont hebeaches I believe...it is pretty peaceful there.

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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/5/2016 6:16:25 PM   
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/5/2016 6:17:50 PM   
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Normandy has changed very much since D day..On that day most of the beach was covered with flat rocks the size of a large hamburger..Today is is mostly marble-sized...The hedgerows which used to be just behind the beaches are now gone.

BTW, the weapon shown above slung on the front of the Wehrmacht dummy is a SturmGewehr 42-44, which the Kalishnikov was based on.
The German belt buckle reads "Gott Mit Uns", designating regular army use.


Stug44 was issued to Eastern Front units mainly - I remember reading it somewhere. I'm surprised to see it in a D-Day Museum.

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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/5/2016 7:32:24 PM   
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ORIGINAL: m10bob

Normandy has changed very much since D day..On that day most of the beach was covered with flat rocks the size of a large hamburger..Today is is mostly marble-sized...The hedgerows which used to be just behind the beaches are now gone.

BTW, the weapon shown above slung on the front of the Wehrmacht dummy is a SturmGewehr 42-44, which the Kalishnikov was based on.
The German belt buckle reads "Gott Mit Uns", designating regular army use.


Stug44 was issued to Eastern Front units mainly - I remember reading it somewhere. I'm surprised to see it in a D-Day Museum.


It was also used in the west, if photo I saw was correct labelled it said, Ardennes front (several heer guy with Stg 44s not even W-SS). STUG44 is wrong, STUG refers to assault guns. Stg44 is correct

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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/5/2016 10:32:39 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Alpha77


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ORIGINAL: m10bob

Normandy has changed very much since D day..On that day most of the beach was covered with flat rocks the size of a large hamburger..Today is is mostly marble-sized...The hedgerows which used to be just behind the beaches are now gone.

BTW, the weapon shown above slung on the front of the Wehrmacht dummy is a SturmGewehr 42-44, which the Kalishnikov was based on.
The German belt buckle reads "Gott Mit Uns", designating regular army use.


Stug44 was issued to Eastern Front units mainly - I remember reading it somewhere. I'm surprised to see it in a D-Day Museum.


It was also used in the west, if photo I saw was correct labelled it said, Ardennes front (several heer guy with Stg 44s not even W-SS). STUG44 is wrong, STUG refers to assault guns. Stg44 is correct



Actually their use of Stug is acceptable.
Sturm Gewehr is basically "assault weapon"..Might be a rifle, might be a turretless tank, but still an "assault weapon".

Dad was an infantry officer and met the original owners of much of the equipmnt in this museum, (or had a possibility to meet them that morning.
By the time my brother and I were 6, we had fired every small arm used by the Wehrmacht, (which he obtained).

That MG42 was also the basis of our M-60 MG...The German MG34 was actually a superior weapon than its' newer (and cheaper) knock off.

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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/5/2016 11:39:55 PM   
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ORIGINAL: m10bob


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ORIGINAL: Alpha77


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ORIGINAL: m10bob

Normandy has changed very much since D day..On that day most of the beach was covered with flat rocks the size of a large hamburger..Today is is mostly marble-sized...The hedgerows which used to be just behind the beaches are now gone.

BTW, the weapon shown above slung on the front of the Wehrmacht dummy is a SturmGewehr 42-44, which the Kalishnikov was based on.
The German belt buckle reads "Gott Mit Uns", designating regular army use.


Stug44 was issued to Eastern Front units mainly - I remember reading it somewhere. I'm surprised to see it in a D-Day Museum.


It was also used in the west, if photo I saw was correct labelled it said, Ardennes front (several heer guy with Stg 44s not even W-SS). STUG44 is wrong, STUG refers to assault guns. Stg44 is correct



Actually their use of Stug is acceptable.
Sturm Gewehr is basically "assault weapon"..Might be a rifle, might be a turretless tank, but still an "assault weapon".

Dad was an infantry officer and met the original owners of much of the equipmnt in this museum, (or had a possibility to meet them that morning.
By the time my brother and I were 6, we had fired every small arm used by the Wehrmacht, (which he obtained).

That MG42 was also the basis of our M-60 MG...The German MG34 was actually a superior weapon than its' newer (and cheaper) knock off.


I've always considered it counterproductive to use up ammo that fast on a light infantry weapon.

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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/5/2016 11:48:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sorry to picknick or nickpick or whatever the yanks say...but the difference STUG and Stg is pretty important.. esp. for the admins right. Say a regiment comander requests in 1945 500 STUGs for his men.... the answer will be: "Are you crazy we have hardly 200 Sturmgeschütze left on the whole east front and you want 500??"

Also the MG3 (which I know from Luftwaffe in the 90ties) is a bit better MG42 with slower ROF and yes, it is true the orig. ROF was to high... MG3 ROF is terrible enough

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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/6/2016 6:40:19 AM   
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Status: offline 		I will visit the Imperial War Museum today. I will take as many photos as possible. I will take note of the German Army stuff. The wifi in the hotel is not good. Only 1 free ac and that is my hand phone. I can't use my laptop to resize photos and post. I will buy some data plan for my laptop and post some more photos tonight. Cheers!

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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/6/2016 7:00:08 PM   
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/6/2016 7:01:01 PM   
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/6/2016 7:02:30 PM   
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/6/2016 7:04:43 PM   
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/6/2016 7:06:49 PM   
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/6/2016 7:08:02 PM   
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/6/2016 7:09:25 PM   
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/6/2016 7:13:09 PM   
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/6/2016 7:15:00 PM   
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/7/2016 2:11:10 AM   
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/7/2016 4:51:05 AM   
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS - 9/7/2016 4:51:49 AM   
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