Johan Willaert Posted January 9, 2020 Share #15776 Posted January 9, 2020 . Hi Kat, well hopefully Johan might add some shots of the rebuild on his Jeep . . . . . . Will do when work continues.... Meanwhile here’s a photo of another well known GPW... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kammo-man Posted January 9, 2020 Share #15777 Posted January 9, 2020 Why dosnt Ian post here anymore? Owen Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 10, 2020 Share #15778 Posted January 10, 2020 Will do when work continues.... Meanwhile here’s a photo of another well known GPW... ? . Hi Johan, many thanks for the photo you added, I have downloaded the image to forward to Mike as it's his Jeep closest to the camera . . . . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 10 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 10, 2020 Share #15779 Posted January 10, 2020 Why dosnt Ian post here anymore? Owen Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk . Hi Owen, I posed the question to Ian today and his reply was ' I've moved on ' . . . . . . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 10 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kammo-man Posted January 10, 2020 Share #15780 Posted January 10, 2020 Shame !! We miss his thoughts here ! Owen Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LtRGFRANK Posted January 10, 2020 Share #15781 Posted January 10, 2020 long story. I miss his comment to put he sends me E-mails about stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 10, 2020 Share #15782 Posted January 10, 2020 . Today's Then & Now, Normandy . . . . . . . . . A Horsa glider crashed landed into a garden wall, it's amazing bad luck looking at the building behind the glider that he swooped over that building and dropped into the wall several yards away. Sadly the bodies of the pilot and co-pilot lay in the mangled wreck, note the water canteen standing on the grass in front of the glider. Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 10 2020 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 10, 2020 Share #15783 Posted January 10, 2020 . Today's Then & Now, Normandy . . . . . . . . . This is the same building although post war modifications have been made to the roof area, all the chimneys have gone and larger windows added and closer together in the roof line. Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 10 2020 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 10, 2020 Share #15784 Posted January 10, 2020 . Normandy Then & Then . . . . . . . . . . . ( not Then & Now for a change ) here is a wartime cartoon from the artistry of Bill Maudlin . . . . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 10 2020 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 10, 2020 Share #15785 Posted January 10, 2020 Normandy Then & Then . . . . . . . . . . . ( not Then & Now for a change ) Here's an example of a typical wartime sign-board where Maudlin would have got the inspiration for his cartoon. This location is a few miles from where I live, the house with the town-name painted roughly on it is still along with the painting still visible on the side wall. Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 10 2020 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willysmb44 Posted January 10, 2020 Share #15786 Posted January 10, 2020 That sign must be along the COM-Z rear area. Not saluting in a vehicle in the field? We called that, "Sniper checking" when I was in the Army! Vehicle crowded? Never saw that being a thing before. Back in the states, they were encouraging people to crowd into vehicles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johan Willaert Posted January 11, 2020 Share #15787 Posted January 11, 2020 . Hi Johan, many thanks for the photo you added, I have downloaded the image to forward to Mike as it's his Jeep closest to the camera . . . . . . Thx, Ken! Found the photo on facebook, taken on Sunday 29th December 2019. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 11, 2020 Share #15788 Posted January 11, 2020 That sign must be along the COM-Z rear area. Not saluting in a vehicle in the field? We called that, "Sniper checking" when I was in the Army! Vehicle crowded? Never saw that being a thing before. Back in the states, they were encouraging people to crowd into vehicles! . Hi Lee, it's on the main route down the Peninsula from Cherbourg towards Coutances and Le Mont St Michel. Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 11 2020 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 11, 2020 Share #15789 Posted January 11, 2020 Thx, Ken! Found the photo on facebook, taken on Sunday 29th December 2019. . Hahhaaa Johan, the Jeep gets everywhere, ' the sun never sets on the mighty Jeep ' . . . . . . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 11 2020 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted January 12, 2020 Share #15790 Posted January 12, 2020 . Today's Then & Now, Normandy . . . . . . . . . A Horsa glider crashed landed into a garden wall, it's amazing bad luck looking at the building behind the glider that he swooped over that building and dropped into the wall several yards away. Sadly the bodies of the pilot and co-pilot lay in the mangled wreck, note the water canteen standing on the grass in front of the glider. Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 10 2020 . DKqAtOQXcAI-97f.jpg A very sad photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted January 12, 2020 Share #15791 Posted January 12, 2020 Normandy Then & Then . . . . . . . . . . . ( not Then & Now for a change ) Here's an example of a typical wartime sign-board where Maudlin would have got the inspiration for his cartoon. This location is a few miles from where I live, the house with the town-name painted roughly on it is still along with the painting still visible on the side wall. Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 10 2020 . post-344-0-84688000-1497610013.jpg Considering that a private was paid about $60 a month, those fines could be quite painful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogsbody Posted January 13, 2020 Share #15792 Posted January 13, 2020 Two Then and Nows from Nijmegen. First up is a shot of the railway bridge seen from the southern bank of the waal river. The middle span of the bridge was destroyed by German frogmen. They carried charges in the form of two torpedoes 12ft long made buoyant by compressed air cylinders. The charges were fixed to a pillar and a time fuze would then be set. Also in the Then shot are several DUKW's operated by British troops but also carrying US troops. The picture was taken around the end of september 1944. Today the railway bridge is a single span affair. The angle of the Now shot is a little off but it's the same spot. Rene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogsbody Posted January 13, 2020 Share #15793 Posted January 13, 2020 The second Then and Now was taken at virtually the same spot but now looking east (the photographer was standing with his back towards the railway bridge). Again a British operated DUKW carrying US troops can be seen. The bridge in the background is the Waal roadbridge . Rene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted January 13, 2020 Share #15794 Posted January 13, 2020 Thanks Rene! Your Then & Now is just ducky! Mikie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 13, 2020 Share #15795 Posted January 13, 2020 Two Then and Nows from Nijmegen. First up is a shot of the railway bridge seen from the southern bank of the waal river. The middle span of the bridge was destroyed by German frogmen. They carried charges in the form of two torpedoes 12ft long made buoyant by compressed air cylinders. The charges were fixed to a pillar and a time fuze would then be set. Also in the Then shot are several DUKW's operated by British troops but also carrying US troops. The picture was taken around the end of september 1944. Nijmegen railroad bridge.jpg Today the railway bridge is a single span affair. The angle of the Now shot is a little off but it's the same spot. DSC_6518a.jpg Rene . Hi Rene, great shots and ones I have never seen before, fun seeing the British operated DUKW's and carrying American troops. Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 13 2020 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Lerenfort Posted January 14, 2020 Share #15796 Posted January 14, 2020 . Today's Then & Now, Normandy . . . . . . . . . A Horsa glider crashed landed into a garden wall, it's amazing bad luck looking at the building behind the glider that he swooped over that building and dropped into the wall several yards away. Sadly the bodies of the pilot and co-pilot lay in the mangled wreck, note the water canteen standing on the grass in front of the glider. Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 10 2020 .DKqAtOQXcAI-97f.jpg Another slightly different view of the same Horsa at St. Mere Eglise. And from behind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 14, 2020 Share #15797 Posted January 14, 2020 Another slightly different view of the same Horsa at St. Mere Eglise. And from behind. . Hi Simon, thank you, don't recall seeing the one with the complete building in the background before. Sadly the second one doesn't have anything that is still there presently, so nothing to make a comparison with. Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 14 2020 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 16, 2020 Share #15798 Posted January 16, 2020 . Local friends latest acquisition . . . . . . . . . . Just received this photograph from a lucky local friend of his latest acquisition, C47 steps, no detail so far of where, how or price he paid. Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 16 2020 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogsbody Posted January 16, 2020 Share #15799 Posted January 16, 2020 . Local friends latest acquisition . . . . . . . . . . Just received this photograph from a lucky local friend of his latest acquisition, C47 steps, no detail so far of where, how or price he paid. Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 16 2020 .fullsizeoutput_3c70.jpeg Hi Ken, that's a nice acquisition. Would also fit nicely as steps in someones swimming pool Rene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted January 16, 2020 Share #15800 Posted January 16, 2020 . Local friends latest acquisition . . . . . . . . . . Just received this photograph from a lucky local friend of his latest acquisition, C47 steps, no detail so far of where, how or price he paid. Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 16 2020 .fullsizeoutput_3c70.jpeg Im sure you could mount that on the Jeep..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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