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patrickl -> Visit to Normandy photos (9/5/2016 3:52:45 AM)

Utah Beach on Saturday 3 Sep 2016. Beautiful weather. Lots of people, Americans, locals.

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patrickl -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/5/2016 3:57:16 AM)

The Point.

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patrickl -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/5/2016 4:03:41 AM)

The American Cemetery at Normandy. I am uploading in my hotel in Bayeux. Bit slow.

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patrickl -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/5/2016 4:12:07 AM)

Bayeux Military Museum. I use my iPhone and Canon to shoot. Lots of photos. Got to catch the Bayeux-Paris train in 3 hours. I will post more tonight when I am in London. I will post the complete stuff when I am back home.

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patrickl -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/5/2016 4:16:29 AM)

The notes to the previous photo.

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patrickl -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/5/2016 4:24:18 AM)

MG42 at left side. The glass display is making taking photos a bit difficult because of the reflection.

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patrickl -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/5/2016 4:27:47 AM)

Sorry guys the photos are grainy. My iPhone 4s is old. The photos in my new camera hopefully are better.



btd64 -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/5/2016 3:29:02 PM)

Very nice. Thank you for sharing. Normandy is one of the locations I want to visit someday....GP



m10bob -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/5/2016 5:11:04 PM)

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.



Korvar -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/5/2016 5:25:36 PM)

Very nice photos - I hope to go there someday.

Thanks for posting!

It must be eerie walking on those beaches...



Alpha77 -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/5/2016 6:06:44 PM)

Have you also seen the railgun ? It was in a smaller museum not ont hebeaches I believe...it is pretty peaceful there.



oaltinyay -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/5/2016 6:16:25 PM)

Excellent Work ! I wish to be there one day as well.




oaltinyay -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/5/2016 6:17:50 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.



Alpha77 -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/5/2016 7:32:24 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: oaltinyay


quote:

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[;)]



m10bob -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/5/2016 10:32:39 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Alpha77


quote:

ORIGINAL: oaltinyay


quote:

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.



geofflambert -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/5/2016 11:39:55 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: m10bob


quote:

ORIGINAL: Alpha77


quote:

ORIGINAL: oaltinyay


quote:

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.



Alpha77 -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/5/2016 11:48:37 PM)

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



patrickl -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/6/2016 6:40:19 AM)

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!



patrickl -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/6/2016 7:00:08 PM)

Omaha Beach looking east. The breach is popular with the locals swimming. Utah Beach attracts lesser crowd.

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patrickl -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/6/2016 7:01:01 PM)

From the beach

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patrickl -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/6/2016 7:02:30 PM)

Plenty of visitors.

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patrickl -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/6/2016 7:04:43 PM)

The bunker

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patrickl -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/6/2016 7:06:49 PM)

Mulberry Harbour

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patrickl -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/6/2016 7:08:02 PM)

Homage to the Brave Ones

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patrickl -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/6/2016 7:09:25 PM)

US 29th Infantry Division

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patrickl -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/6/2016 7:13:09 PM)

This is where the breakthrough by General Cota. The posts.

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patrickl -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/6/2016 7:15:00 PM)

A tank in a private museum just 200m from the Omaha Beach. Anyone with spare change can get that tank.

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reg113 -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/7/2016 2:11:10 AM)

Thank you for sharing...[sm=character0272.gif]



patrickl -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/7/2016 4:51:05 AM)

It is my pleasure. Some Utah Beach photos.

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patrickl -> RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS (9/7/2016 4:51:49 AM)

Map

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