Day trip to France 06

[ashley]

Hi to all,

earlier this year a few of us decided to take the jeeps to France for a day. Due to complications this was not too be,so by car we went arriving at 06:00 hrs on 11th November 2006.The first site we visited it was so dark i didn`t bother taking the camera.

The second location was the jump off point for the Highland Div in the battle for France a great place toreally start the day as i met a survivor from this operation earlier this year

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Then we moved to Pegasus bridge just a couple of miles away (i`ve not captioned the pictures as i am sure many of you have trod this route, any questions do ask)

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One of the difficult parts of this thread was which pictures to leave out of the 94 i took that day. After attendind the memorial service at the bridge (with 12 airmen0 it was time to move on to the Longues (sp) battery.

 

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[ashley]

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The next photo stop was the American Cemetary which contains approx 11,000 graves, the chimes @3pm of the bells was very moving indeed.

 

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Then on to pont Du hoc haven`t been here since the early eighties

 

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Well that sums up the whistle stop tour i was really surprised how much Ammoranches had changed and a pity the museum was closed

 

Hopefully in the early summer we Will be taking another day trip in the jeeps to cover mainly the Cherbourg peninsular.

 

THATS ALL FOLKS!

 

Ashley

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jack]

Nice work Ashley, some great sites there and I must keep my eyes out for the deal you got - I was saying to Anne that maybe we will be able to get over for a day during Christmas.

 

We are lucky that we live on the coast and we should take more of an advantage of that.

 

Having just finished a book on Pegasus and having a chat with his great newphew at the weekend, I must get there myself.

 

Thanks for taking the time to post up the images for all of us to see.

 

Cheers.

 

Jack.

[Mrs T20]

Some fantastic pictures, it really does bring a lump to your throat when you see some of the sites that you visited, well done ashley

 

Donna

[Enigma]

Been there for a 1 day visit in 2000 ( my mate wanted to go home after 1 day, arrived back at 07:00 hours!).

So much to see.

I was very impressed by the devastation at Point Du Hoc.

 

Also met a US veteran in a museum standing by a Dodge with tears in his eyes.

I approached him and said I drove 1 of those. His sad mood cleared and he got his family around him to tell them about me and the fact I had a WW2 Dodge.

I was glad to make the man smile again...

[Joris]

Great photos!