From: Thomas M McHugh (tmmchugh@msn.com)
Date: Sat Apr 24 2004 - 04:27:21 PDT
Nige,
If you have the time, can you copy the info on the memorial & send it out.
I have no doubt it will be of interest to Veterans when it is read. The
names might jog memories.
I lost a Cousin in WWII. We thought he went down in the North Sea. Only a
few years ago, his plane was found in Holland buried on a farm. The farmer
has now stated that he was told to bury it, but he never told anyone after
the war, until now.
Thanks for the message.
Tom McHugh, NJ
1952 M38A1
M-416 Trailer
US ARMY Retired
MVPA, MTA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel Hay" <Nigel@milweb.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 3:31 AM
Subject: [MV] Normady discovery
> As I took my daily early morning bike ride through the bocage, past the
farm
> with the Panzer road wheels and the endless bits of PSP and sand ramping I
> decided to take a new lane about 5 miles out that I had never noticed
> before- it turned out to be a dead end - a la difference......
>
> In the early morning sunlight I spotted a glint on a large piece of
granite
> at the entrance to a large Normandy manoir house. It turned out to be the
> light catching the gold lettering on an impressive ( and looks fairly
> recent) memorial to 6 US airmen who crashed there in April 1944, whilst
> dropping weapons supplies to the resistance, as part of the pre invasion
> operation. it lists the crew and there role on board the plane.
>
> Never far from historical interest around here for sure.
>
> NIGE
> Normandy
>
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