"AFV Gallery - pictures from battlefield visits" Topic
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jocknroll | 30 Dec 2016 7:54 a.m. PST |
collected over several years some shots from various WW2 battle sites link |
jowady | 30 Dec 2016 8:47 a.m. PST |
Very neat. I have a question though, since you visit these battlefields is there any preservation of the fields themselves? My Dad fought in Normandy (not in the invasion) and then in Holland, Belgium and Remagan, the encirclement of the Ruhr and wound up around Duisburg. I am an avid ACW and AWI battlefield tramper here in the USA but I would like to walk a few of his fields. |
jocknroll | 30 Dec 2016 9:03 a.m. PST |
It really depends. Some of the battlefields re so vast that it would be impossible to preserve them. It is possible to see specific locations which will have remained relatively unchanged. A good example is the Falaise Gap where the German forces in Normandy were finally defeated. It is possible to visit this broad area, see the positions from the relative views of Poles, Canadians, Germans etc and really understand the battle. The Beaches are much the same. Urban battlegrounds not so much. The Ardennes area is also much the same. Pre mechanized warfare locations are often easier to preserve but many are not. Some have remained unchanged because no one has seen a commercial opportunity to build upon them. |
jowady | 30 Dec 2016 9:46 a.m. PST |
Thanks Jocknroll. Naturally I knew that you couldn't preserve something as large as the entire Ardennes but it does sound as though I can at least get something of a feel for where my Dad fought. As for commercial opportunity to develop, well that's the bane of the preservationist. Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose. I think that my Dad would be happy with just a little marker here and there, that the Allied Armies came through here, something like that. |
Frederick | 30 Dec 2016 4:42 p.m. PST |
Nice – thanks for posting |
christot | 31 Dec 2016 12:28 a.m. PST |
There is the "Cobra route" in Normandy, which is a signposted drive through various spots, there are fewer things of this type outside of Normandy although I think there is balance in Europe between those of us who would have more of this and those in the last 70 years who would not promote the war as much. One thing you often find all over France are little roadside monuments to resistance fighters killed at a particular spot. Plus of course every single village in France has its war memorial…there are a lot of villages in France. |
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