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Snipersnest
11-16-2011, 02:14 PM
http://blogs.**********.com/captured/2009/06/05/the-65th-anniversary-of-d-day-on-the-normandy-beaches/ (http://blogs.denver post.com/captured/2009/06/05/the-65th-anniversary-of-d-day-on-the-normandy-beaches/)

NAMVET72
11-16-2011, 05:06 PM
That is a Very Interesting Weblink............


Clyde

svandamme
11-16-2011, 05:19 PM
great series of pictures...

Haven't visited the D-day landing beaches yet, bit embarrising to admit.. it's only 3-400 km away from here..

Have visited the V2 facility of Eperlecques.... Amazing place...
Basically one of the biggest bunkers built in WW2, only the Sub Pens were bigger
The Allies dropped Tallboy bombs on that thing with hardly any damage other then some concrete chipped off the roof edge.

http://battlefield-site.co.uk/eperlecques001.jpg

Really need to go visit the Normandy beaches next summer..

Snipersnest
11-16-2011, 05:40 PM
I'd like to go to Europe someday and visit where my Dad fought during the war. I have a friend who was a Dutch Marine. It'd be a good trip seeing the battle areas and also visiting my friend.

SemperFi1977m
11-16-2011, 06:27 PM
great link; thanks for sharing :-). I would love to go see Normandy myself someday.

Riverpigusmc
11-16-2011, 07:53 PM
I'd like to go to Europe someday and visit where my Dad fought during the war. I have a friend who was a Dutch Marine. It'd be a good trip seeing the battle areas and also visiting my friend.

Me too..my dad went ashore at Normandy..lost him last year..be interesting to see

svandamme
11-17-2011, 03:43 AM
I'd like to go to Europe someday and visit where my Dad fought during the war. I have a friend who was a Dutch Marine. It'd be a good trip seeing the battle areas and also visiting my friend.

Where did your dad see action? did he come out of it unharmed?


Me too..my dad went ashore at Normandy..lost him last year..be interesting to see

If you come this way, do let me know, it's not that far from where i live.
And i live near the Westvletern abbey, we gotz great beer round these parts.

Offer stands for any of you , be happy to offer a tour of the Ypres Salient, and some of the WW2 sites North of France... Just gimme plenty of heads up if you want to come, so i can make the time.

Snipersnest
11-17-2011, 07:41 AM
Where did your dad see action? did he come out of it unharmed?

He was with the 3rd Armored Infantry (Spearhead Division), Belgium, Germany and France. He received no wounds, but as a result of being a sole survivor of an ambush, he did have severe PTSD.

svandamme
11-17-2011, 08:56 AM
Did he talk to you about it?

My grandfather, well, he only was a drafted soldier briefly,
basically the location where they were supposed to organize themselves was overrun before any of them even got there during the Blitzkrieg advances in the early days.

He was captured, sent (marched) to Stalag XIIIa where he was POW for 3 to 4 months.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads19/61845_1544381644891_1095480941_2990125_320210_n132 1537867.jpg


After that he was sent home again, and later ordered to Hamburg as a forced laborer in some kind of chemical factory (special paint coatings, we think for V2)..

So he never saw real combat, i don't know if he actually had PTSD..
But for the rest of his life he never wasted any bit of food, never threw away a single screw he could re-use...
He never said much about his experience in captivity... I presume they endured allied bombing in Hamburg and i can't imagine what that must have been like.
But he never really talked about it much... He passed away 6 years ago..

In his final years he became more at ease with things.. but i wasn't around i was abroad.. much to my regret...

So now , i've been looking up info on where he was during the war, planning to visit Hamburg, i've heard that the place where he worked still existed 15 years ago, now trying to find out if it still does exist...