From: Horrocks, Aaron (ACHb@pge.com)
Date: Tue Sep 09 2003 - 15:29:24 PDT
On the anniversary of the invasions, does anyone actually do landings in Normandy, with the authentic vehicles? If so, how does one go about signing up? I've almost got all of my WWII gear together. All I'm missing are the service shoes, and a pistol belt which are very hard to find. I'd love to sign up and join the forces to ride onto the beach on a landing craft in all my 1941~43 dated gear... Provided that I don't have to run up the shore against a bunch of mortar fire and live MG-42s!
Aaron Horrocks
1952 M38A1
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From: Maurizio Beretta [mailto:pierino@fastwebnet.it]
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 2:11 PM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] Ideas for stop-over in Paris
Hi Mike!
I do strongly suggest you to buy the wonderful guide to Normandy:
BATTLE OF NORMANDY, Gallimard Guides ISBN 2 7424 0243 8
...they in Normandy have eight historic routes, very well signed, that
could help you to make a good planning of your visit...I spent there a week
two years ago, and I've already booked, together with my group, a whole
"little" castle for the next year event!! ...we'll bring there a Sherman, a
Stuart maybe an Halftrack, command cars and jeeps...and maybe an L-5
airplane as well!!
the 8 routes cover the d-day landings and the battle of normandy sites..
buy the guide, then feel free to e-mail me for any doubt or irf you want a
deep report of the sites illustrated.
that's valid for everyone, of course!!
ciao
maurizio
At 21.53 09/09/2003 +0200, Nigel Hay MILWEB wrote:
>Paris to Normandy is about 4 hours to the beaches - depending on how you
>drive
>
>Just get down to Arromanches and start from there - excellent museum and
>the 360degree cinema is something else - from their go east to the new Juno
>Beach Museum then head west toPort En Bessin - a good museum of relics
>including tanks and boats salvaged from the sea - then onto Omaha - there is
>an archive museum as well as the musuem on the approach to the beach. No
>visit would be complete without a visit the American cemetary above Omaha or
>the British one at Bayeux - also do Point du hoc
>The above will fill 2 days dawn to dusk - Utah beach and the US dropzones
>are a bit further west - you would be pushed to fit them in as well in two
>days.
>
>Hope this helps, Nige
>Normandy
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "42Ford GPW" <ilovejeeps@hotmail.com>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 4:39 PM
>Subject: [MV] Ideas for stop-over in Paris
>
>
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I will be traveling to our two ball bearing plants in Hungary and Poland
> > during the second and third
> > weeks of October.
> >
> > On the way back, i have the opportunity to stop over in Paris for a few
> > days. My thoughts were to
> > get down to Normandy area and view the invasion sights, museums, etc.
>this
> > would be done to familiarize myself with the area in preparation for D-Day
> > 2004 trip.
> >
> > I would appreciate any ideas, thoughts, places of interest to visit, etc.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Mike Curtis
> >
> >
> >
> > Mike Curtis
> > 1942 GPW(2) 1943 WC-52
> > 1942 MB 1943 WC-56
> > 1944 MB 1951 M37
> > 1951 M38 1963 M37-B1
> > 1955 M38-A1 1968 M35-A2
> > 1972 M151-A2
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