TheCrustyBosun Posted January 6, 2022 Share #19701 Posted January 6, 2022 5 hours ago, General Apathy said: . Hi Kat & CrustyBosun, My UK Jeeping friend Len has emailed me two examples of Dzus tools he has, and it would appear that the driver of the Jeep shown below might possibly need one as it has been converted using a B-17 crew cabin. . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 06 2022. . Ok. Now I want a Jeep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted January 6, 2022 Share #19702 Posted January 6, 2022 Hi Johan, if you hear someone knocking on your door, it may be me. Somebody brought a box of Belgian chocolates to the office. They are wonderful and I am now thinking of moving to Belgium. You won't mind me moving in while I find a place, would you? Mikie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Lerenfort Posted January 7, 2022 Share #19703 Posted January 7, 2022 On 12/16/2021 at 8:46 PM, mikie said: Oh that poor little jeep. Looks like one that had been used by part of Otto Skorzenys Einheit Stielau jeep group. Ambushed by the Americans during the Bulge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted January 7, 2022 Share #19704 Posted January 7, 2022 On 1/6/2022 at 11:47 AM, Johan Willaert said: Fiddling around in the collection building, I came across these metal plates which were used during WW2 by US Army MPs and other units as information or traffic signs... We still used these back in the mid 1980s when I was a motorcycle MP stationed in Germany and when that unit was disbanded and returned to Belgium I took several of these plates home... Anyway after seeing some original examples on WW2 footage or in museums, I decided to paint some accordingly... First is an original sign which is on display in the Normandy Victory Museum in Catz, France, along with my recreation... Great signs! You are giving me ideas! ...Kat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johan Willaert Posted January 7, 2022 Share #19705 Posted January 7, 2022 On 1/6/2022 at 7:12 PM, mikie said: Hi Johan, if you hear someone knocking on your door, it may be me. Somebody brought a box of Belgian chocolates to the office. They are wonderful and I am now thinking of moving to Belgium. You won't mind me moving in while I find a place, would you? Mikie You’d better let me know well in advance so I can stock up on chocolate… Doesnt last long in the pantry in our home… 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 7, 2022 Share #19706 Posted January 7, 2022 On 1/6/2022 at 5:48 PM, Johan Willaert said: One on display in the 101st Airborne Museum 'Le Mess' in Bastogne . Hi Johan, Great additions all the signage you have added, little details that say a lot. I suppose in the military the shoulders were swept for mines, in the barbers the shoulders would be swept for dandruff . . . . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 07 2022. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted January 8, 2022 Share #19707 Posted January 8, 2022 Sign, sign, everywhere a sign Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted January 8, 2022 Share #19708 Posted January 8, 2022 ....You ain’t supposed to be here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 8, 2022 Share #19709 Posted January 8, 2022 . Today 08 January 2022 . . . . . . Today would have been the 68th birthday of my old chum Ian Phillips aka ' Sabrejet ' . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 08 2022. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 8, 2022 Share #19710 Posted January 8, 2022 . Another memorable day for Grandson . . . . . . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 08 2022. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
American Graffiti Posted January 8, 2022 Share #19711 Posted January 8, 2022 Happy New Year Ken and all here, great Grandson pic, first tooth! Wow, wait til he hears Led Zeppelin for the first time!😆 AG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 8, 2022 Share #19712 Posted January 8, 2022 1 hour ago, General Apathy said: . Today 08 January 2022 . . . . . . Today would have been the 68th birthday of my old chum Ian Phillips aka ' Sabrejet ' . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 08 2022. . . Apologies a date correction it would have been Ian's 69th birthday I just received the following photo from Ian's wife Sian, taken on a very cold wet day at Penarth Pier over a plaque dedicated to Ian. . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 08 2022. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 8, 2022 Share #19713 Posted January 8, 2022 6 minutes ago, American Graffiti said: Happy New Year Ken and all here, great Grandson pic, first tooth! Wow, wait til he hears Led Zeppelin for the first time!😆 AG . Hi AG, Thanks, I think that the open mouthed facial image would be very much the same as a result of listening to ' Whole lotta Love ' 🤘 Strange thinking fifty years have passed already . . . . . . . . . . . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 08 2022. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 8, 2022 Share #19714 Posted January 8, 2022 12 hours ago, Salvage Sailor said: ....You ain’t supposed to be here . Hi Salvage, Thanks, my local friend who has numerous pieces of signage describes his collection as ' fifty years of petty-theft ' . . . . . . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 08 2022. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 8, 2022 Share #19715 Posted January 8, 2022 23 hours ago, Simon Lerenfort said: Looks like one that had been used by part of Otto Skorzenys Einheit Stielau jeep group. Ambushed by the Americans during the Bulge. . Hi Simon, yes a very good comment . . . . . . 👍🏻 Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 08 2022. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johan Willaert Posted January 9, 2022 Share #19716 Posted January 9, 2022 On 1/7/2022 at 3:15 PM, Simon Lerenfort said: Looks like one that had been used by part of Otto Skorzenys Einheit Stielau jeep group. In December 1989 during a Winter military vehicle rally we re-enacted Stielau jeep group members... We all wore blue scarves and dangling helmet straps and painted the small yellow triangle on the back of our Jeeps as recognition signs for Skorzeny's PzBde 150... No-one realized what we were really doing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogsbody Posted January 9, 2022 Share #19717 Posted January 9, 2022 On 1/7/2022 at 10:27 PM, Johan Willaert said: You’d better let me know well in advance so I can stock up on chocolate… Doesnt last long in the pantry in our home… 😉 Don't forget 🧀. He seems to like that too. 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 9, 2022 Share #19718 Posted January 9, 2022 On 1/8/2022 at 2:50 PM, American Graffiti said: Happy New Year Ken and all here, great Grandson pic, first tooth! Wow, wait til he hears Led Zeppelin for the first time!😆 AG . Hi AG, thought I couldn't let pass this opportunity to show the link for Ann & Nancy Wilsons stunning rendition of ' Stairway to Heaven ' performed at the Kennedy centre in 2012 honouring the lifetime achievements of Led Zeppelin. Watching Jason Bonham brings back great memories for me of being at Bonham's house and watching Jason Bonham as a five year old playing an outstanding set on his very own drum set . . . . . . . . . . so many memories, and drink beer at ' Bonzo's Bar ' , sadly no camera phones in those days. Enjoy !!!! Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 09 2022. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 9, 2022 Share #19719 Posted January 9, 2022 7 hours ago, Johan Willaert said: In December 1989 during a Winter military vehicle rally we re-enacted Stielau jeep group members... We all wore blue scarves and dangling helmet straps and painted the small yellow triangle on the back of our Jeeps as recognition signs for Skorzeny's PzBde 150... No-one realized what we were really doing... . Hi Johan, great photo taken in the falling snow, we have both had some really good times in the Ardennes . . . . . . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 09 2022. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted January 9, 2022 Share #19720 Posted January 9, 2022 2 hours ago, Dogsbody said: Don't forget 🧀. He seems to like that too. 🙂 Oh just a little😋😋. So what is the pizza like in Belgium? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 9, 2022 Share #19721 Posted January 9, 2022 2 hours ago, Dogsbody said: Don't forget 🧀. He seems to like that too. 🙂 . Hi Rene, Here's a cheese feature for Mikie, who knows it might really be Mikie in the video . . . . . . . . Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 09 2022. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted January 9, 2022 Share #19722 Posted January 9, 2022 My favorite ZEP tune is When the levee breaks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted January 9, 2022 Share #19723 Posted January 9, 2022 50 minutes ago, manayunkman said: My favorite ZEP tune is When the levee breaks. . Hi Peter. So many favourite songs so little time . . . . . . . . . I do love the deep base line on ' Dazed & Confused ' . . . . . But ' Stairway to heaven ' has a deep meaning for me to be sat with Bob when he wrote the words to Stairway to Heaven with a sharpie on a freshly rendered wall inside his farmhouse . . . . . . . no bloody camera phones then. As I was the only person in the room it would have been an iconic capture. I just pondered about adding a 2021 satellite image of Bob's farm and annotating where various 70's photographs were taken on the farm, but then I thought even though he doesn't live there any longer it might be an infringement of the current owners rights. Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, January 10 2022. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burning Hazard Posted January 9, 2022 Share #19724 Posted January 9, 2022 Hi Lewis and Simon, Have any of you visited Henri-Chapelle in Belgium? There is one interesting WWII location there that quite surprised me. Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Dentino Posted January 10, 2022 Share #19725 Posted January 10, 2022 2 hours ago, manayunkman said: My favorite ZEP tune is When the levee breaks. Mine is "Ramble On" but so many amazing Zep tunes and to think that one of ours here was there when these amazing pieces of music were made, but when they were actually written! Holy Moley, combining my 2 favorite things.....music and history. Now this is what makes this forum and the people on here AMAZING! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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