I get the impression that more then a couple folks here have made the trip this year to Normandy (or any other years for that matter) and think we should share experiances, insight and ideas on this being what could be athe last benchmark year we see the old boys attending the event and the Day of Days slipping away from living history to recorded history. I spent my eight days driving around Utah-Omaha-Carentan, St Lo with a GPW and on the 6th drove over to Pegasus Bridge (took forever with the area in lock down), Drove/stopped at Bretteville, Bayeux, Buron (thats tank country for sure) and intend on going with my buds from the UK again in four years time, the 70th was by all accounts a "blow out" year for vehicles attending, garbed reenactors galore, and its rumoured the French will scale back after this (What, no more fireworks on the night of the 5th?!?!). Anyways lets hear your Normandy stories.
Longues-sur-Mer
Post war/battle local mayors where allowed to take and use whatever foods/medicines,material the Wehrmacht had left behind, that including scrapping vehicles/tanks/guns in batterys. Thankfully the good mayor back in the day decided these casemates and guns (152mm naval guns that fired onto Omaha and the fleet offshore) should be preserved.
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