OT: Pictures from Normandy and Brugge

OT: Pictures from Normandy and Brugge

Enjoy!

http :// tinyurl,com /6lfref

Re: OT: Pictures from Normandy and Brugge

In article
<1fc9591b-16e5-4ccd-bc50-2dc54f6a6eaf@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups,com >,
Mitch <mitchfsu25@gmail,com > wrote:

> Enjoy!
>
> http :// tinyurl,com /6lfref

Thanks for posting the pics.

When I visited Omaha Beach in 2003, I noticed there was a lot more open
space from the water to the German positions than the beach in "Saving
Private Ryan" (which was filmed in Ireland as I recall). I walked down
to the waterline and tried to imagine just making it across that beach
alive, much less overcoming the German defensive positions in the hills
above. If the Allies hadn't invaded with such overwhelming force, or
if the Nazis had deployed more defenses in Normandy instead of
anticipating an invasion at Calais, the European war might have gone
very differently.

I also visited a few of the other cemeteries for British, Canadian,
Polish and German combatants. There are 27 military cemeteries in
Normandy. The British have more dead buried there than the Americans,
and of course the Germans outnumber the Allies by far with nearly
60,000 graves.

--- Walt

Re: OT: Pictures from Normandy and Brugge

Walt wrote:

>
> I also visited a few of the other cemeteries for British, Canadian,
> Polish and German combatants. There are 27 military cemeteries in
> Normandy. The British have more dead buried there than the Americans,
> and of course the Germans outnumber the Allies by far with nearly
> 60,000 graves.
>
> --- Walt

Just curious- are the french charging us rent on the cemetery sites,
now, or did we get the land "free,"
--
Nonny

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Re: OT: Pictures from Normandy and Brugge

In article <hNxbk.14446$rH1.9863@newsfe20.lga>, Nonnymus
<nobody@cox,net > wrote:

> Walt wrote:
>
> >
> > I also visited a few of the other cemeteries for British, Canadian,
> > Polish and German combatants. There are 27 military cemeteries in
> > Normandy. The British have more dead buried there than the Americans,
> > and of course the Germans outnumber the Allies by far with nearly
> > 60,000 graves.
> >
> > --- Walt
>
> Just curious- are the french charging us rent on the cemetery sites,
> now, or did we get the land "free,"

I think the land was donated. We pay for maintenance of the American
cemeteries.

--- Walt

Re: OT: Pictures from Normandy and Brugge

On Jul 4, 2:00 am, Mitch <mitchfs...@gmail,com > wrote:

> Enjoy!
>
> http :// tinyurl,com /6lfref

I am sure Dr. Bob will be THRILLED with the pics of France. :>)


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