Visit to Normandy photos
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 12:52 am
Utah Beach on Saturday 3 Sep 2016. Beautiful weather. Lots of people, Americans, locals.
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Visit to Normandy photos
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RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 12:57 am
The Point.
RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:03 am
The American Cemetery at Normandy. I am uploading in my hotel in Bayeux. Bit slow.
RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:12 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.
RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:16 am
The notes to the previous photo.
RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:24 am
MG42 at left side. The glass display is making taking photos a bit difficult because of the reflection.
RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:27 am
Sorry guys the photos are grainy. My iPhone 4s is old. The photos in my new camera hopefully are better.
RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 12:29 pm
Very nice. Thank you for sharing. Normandy is one of the locations I want to visit someday....GP
RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 2:11 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.
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.
RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 2:25 pm
Very nice photos - I hope to go there someday.
Thanks for posting!
It must be eerie walking on those beaches...
Thanks for posting!
It must be eerie walking on those beaches...
RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 3:06 pm
Have you also seen the railgun ? It was in a smaller museum not ont hebeaches I believe...it is pretty peaceful there.
RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 3:16 pm
Excellent Work ! I wish to be there one day as well.
RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 3:17 pm
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.
RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 4:32 pm
ORIGINAL: oaltinyay
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[;)]
RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 7:32 pm
ORIGINAL: Alpha77
ORIGINAL: oaltinyay
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.
RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 8:39 pm
ORIGINAL: m10bob
ORIGINAL: Alpha77
ORIGINAL: oaltinyay
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.
RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 8:48 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
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
RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2016 3:40 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!
RE: VISIT TO NORMANDY PHOTOS
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2016 4:00 pm
Omaha Beach looking east. The breach is popular with the locals swimming. Utah Beach attracts lesser crowd.
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2016 4:01 pm
From the beach
