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Day 3: Normandy
... any night! We patted the dog on the way out and wished the family a wonderful night. I'm not sure they understood what we were saying, but they smiled anyway. A train ride later, we're back in Paris. Tomorrow, Dad and Tom will travel to Metz to see another city that grandpa was in, while Brad and I see more of Paris. We'd go too, but Dad and Tom have an extra day on their train pass due to a logistical error on my part, so they ...
The D Day beaches of Normandy!
... able to go to a lot of the sites that the larger vehicles can't access. William, a student of the events that happened here, also had lots of knowledge to share that we wouldn't have gotten otherwise. Everything from stories told by his grandmother of 2 paratroopers knocking on her door asking for directions to incidents shared by veterans he has led on tours!
I think I can safely speak for our entire ...
The Beaches of Normandy Weekend: Part 3
... was functional, the bunkers must have had gas-powered or electric light systems set up. It is hard to imagine living underground in one of these places, with so many other soldiers, on the cold, northern coast of France.
When the bombs started to drop from the Allied planes and ships, it must have been mayhem. There is a little bit of footage in the film we watched in the museum from the chaos at Point du Hoc after the Allied forces were spotted. Since the Germans had ...
The Beaches of Normandy Weekend: Part 2
... monument surrounds a bronze statue of a naked man known as the "Spirit of American Youth." Behind the memorial statue is the Wall of the Missing, also a semi-circle garden. Inscribed on the walls are 1,557 names. Over the years, during constructions and searches, some of the bodies belonging to these names have been recovered and identified. When someone is found, their name gets a bronze roseette next to it; there are only about a dozen names on ...
The river runs like a madman
... berth. We had a few beers with him and his offsider Kevin(not a vaery french name). Over the beers we learned that his 1000hp motor was not operating because the gearbox was buggered. He does the run to holland normaly and i jokingly said he could put red on the deck and he said yes. But he has no motor. But he rang his brother who is driving barges up there and got some local info for usas to which canal was best. He even drove me to the office to get the vnf ...
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