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Then and Now from Carentan!
27/04/2025

Then and Now from Carentan!

View from the east into Arromanches-les-Bains! Arromanches-les-Bains is famous for the beautiful view and the remains of...
26/04/2025

View from the east into Arromanches-les-Bains! Arromanches-les-Bains is famous for the beautiful view and the remains of the Mulberry Harbour. Mulberry harbours were temporary portable harbours developed by the United Kingdom during the Second World War to facilitate the rapid offloading of cargo onto beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. After the Allies successfully held beachheads following D-Day, two prefabricated harbours were taken in sections across the English Channel from the UK with the invading army and assembled off Omaha Beach (Mulberry "A") and Gold Beach (Mulberry "B"). The Mulberry harbours were to be used until major French ports could be captured and brought back into use after repair of the inevitable sabotage by German defenders. The Mulberry B harbour at Gold Beach was used for 10 months after D-Day, and over 2.5 million men, 500,000 vehicles, and 4 million tons of supplies were landed before it was fully decommissioned. The still only partially-completed Mulberry A harbour at Omaha Beach was damaged on 19 June by a violent storm that suddenly arrived from the north-east. After three days the storm finally abated and damage was found to be so severe that the harbour had to be abandoned.

The Pegasus Bridge! On 6 June 1944, the bridge was, along with the nearby Ranville Bridge over the Orne River (another r...
26/04/2025

The Pegasus Bridge! On 6 June 1944, the bridge was, along with the nearby Ranville Bridge over the Orne River (another road crossing, later renamed Horsa Bridge), the objective of members of D Company, 2nd (Airborne) Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, a glider-borne force who were part of the 6th Airlanding Brigade of the 6th Airborne Division during Operation Deadstick, itself part of Operation Tonga in the opening minutes of the Allied invasion of Normandy. Under the command of Major John Howard, D Company was to land close by the bridges in six AS 51 Horsa gliders and, in a coup-de-main operation, take both intact and hold them until relieved by the main British invasion forces. The successful capture of the bridges played an important role in limiting the effectiveness of a German counter-attack in the aftermath of the Normandy invasion. Later in 1944, the Bénouville Bridge was renamed Pegasus Bridge in honour of the operation. The name is derived from the shoulder emblem worn by the British Parachute Regiment which depicts Bellerophon riding the flying horse Pegasus.

Leipzig! Then and Now!!!
26/04/2025

Leipzig! Then and Now!!!

🍕Rome/Italy
26/04/2025

🍕Rome/Italy

Leipzig/April 1945
26/04/2025

Leipzig/April 1945

Canadian Infantry in Oldenburg/Germany! In the fall and winter of 1944, many male residents were drafted into the Volkss...
26/04/2025

Canadian Infantry in Oldenburg/Germany! In the fall and winter of 1944, many male residents were drafted into the Volkssturm or used for entrenchment work on the Dutch border. In April 1945, allied troops stood on the border of Oldenburg Land. The city of Oldenburg was handed over to the Canadian troops on May 2nd and 3rd 1945 without a fight. Oldenburg was largely spared from the air raids of WW2.

Berlin Reichstag! Following the Reichstag fire on 27 February 1933, the building was not used for parliamentary sessions...
26/04/2025

Berlin Reichstag! Following the Reichstag fire on 27 February 1933, the building was not used for parliamentary sessions for the next 12 yesrs. Instead, the nearby Kroll Opera House was used, and the Reichstag building became the setting for political exhibitions. In 1939 the library and archive were moved elsewhere, and the windows bricked up as the building was made into a fortress. By 1943, the building was used as a hospital, and a radio tube manufacturing facility by AEG. During the Battle of Berlin in 1945, it became one of the central targets for the Red Army to capture, due to its perceived symbolic significance.

The battle of the „Hürtgen Forrest! The village of Vossenack was completely destroyed in the fighting between November 1...
26/04/2025

The battle of the „Hürtgen Forrest! The village of Vossenack was completely destroyed in the fighting between November 1944 and February 1945. Even the church was not spared destruction. In his essay ’You are now entering Germany’ the German Nobel Prize-winning author Heinrich Böll mentioned that fierce fighting took place in the church: “In Vossenack the ‘front’ ran straight through the parish church, with the American soldiers firing down from the organ loft, the Germans up from the sacristy”. Böll also wrote that the village of Vossenack had changed ownership between Germans and Americans twenty-eight times. To put this in perspective it can be confirmed that on 6 November two companies of the 112th U.S. Regiment had to escape a German attack from the Tiefenbach valley in panic. Only when they reached the church were the Americans were able to stop the German attack. In the course of this engagement the fighting in the church was taking place. A commemorative plaque inside the church calls the events to mind. However, after 6 November there was no other attack on Vossenack by the Germans. Thx for the pictures of Vossenack

Then and Now! Utah Beach!
26/04/2025

Then and Now! Utah Beach!

Arromanches-les-Bains!
26/04/2025

Arromanches-les-Bains!

Port-en-Bessin-Huppain! The liberation of Port-en-Bessin also known as Operation Aubery took place from 7–8 June 1944, a...
26/04/2025

Port-en-Bessin-Huppain! The liberation of Port-en-Bessin also known as Operation Aubery took place from 7–8 June 1944, at a small fishing harbour west of Arromanches during the Normandy landings. The village was between Omaha Beach and Gold Beach. An objective during Operation Overlord, the fortified port was captured by No. 47 (Royal Marine) Commando of the 4th Special Service Brigade.

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