From: Steve & Jeannie Keith (cckw@comcast.net)
Date: Thu May 12 2005 - 03:34:52 PDT
I got a chance to meet Peter back in 89 when I was on one of this
(for that year) D-Day tours. Stayed with George Patton Kimmons
in England. GREAT TIME!
Steve AKA Dr Deuce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel Hay MILWEB" <nigel@milweb.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 2:25 AM
Subject: [MV] Its back to MV's folks....... Jersey Liberation events report
> Last weekend saw an excellent 3 days of events on the island. A two day
> rally with around 170 vehicles - these included several German vehicles
> that
> had never ever been off the island in 60 years - like a 4 wheel Stoewer
> command car - restored from an absolute hulk.
>
> The arena events per pure chance re-united two reconnaissance regt vets
> who
> hadn't seen each other for 60 years - an amazing moment
> The founder of the MVCG , now MVT, Peter Gray was with us, his wartime
> exploits in jersey as "Der Junger" a wanted saboteur, are legendary and he
> was finally caught by the Nazis and imprisoned for the last 9 months of
> the
> war - if it had been before D Day he would have certainly been executed.
> He
> has just written a book of his experiences under the jackboot and is now
> seeking a publisher
>
> Our parade in front of around 65,000 people ( most of the Jersey
> population)
> in St Helier before HM The Queen arrived was spectacular.
>
> Three Morris Quads with limbers and 25 pounders did the 21 gun salute on
> the beach. The 6 landing craft unloaded a wide range of WW" vehicles,
> including the mintest International halftrack I ever saw, Humber and
> Daimler
> armoured car, Bedford's etc.
> TV coverage was considerable, the worlds press - even CNN were with us.
>
> All in all a very special event.
>
>
> NIGE
>
>
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