From: James Shanks (n1vbn@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Aug 10 2005 - 16:57:58 PDT
Nigel,
Thanks for the update on what is going on in
area's where many of Our Finast Generation did
what they had to do. I probably will never get
the opportunity to get over there but find it
very interesting when these little snippits of
info pop up.
KEEP EM COMING!!!!!!!
James Shanks
1985 M-1009
--- Nigel Hay MILWEB <nigel@milweb.net> wrote:
>
> A lone GMC 6x6 entered Vire in Normandy last
> evening. All the Germans seemed
> to be gone and the few locals about waved and
> cheered the driver who passed
> through the town leaving the American sector
> and heading for the British
> held part of the Vire Vassy Highway.
>
>
> Through his 1942 German ranging binoculars the
> lone forward spotter at La
> Fauvelliere watched the truck approach along
> the valley road.....
>
>
> Well, back to reality.... 61 years to the day
> of the actual fighting for
> this hill here in Normandy, as luck would have
> it, a friend decided to turn
> up in his GMC. We went up to Les Sources where
> in August 1944 two 88's
> fought against some tanks of 11th Armoured
> commanded by the man later to
> become the statesman Lord Carrington. The
> vantage point at 283m above sea
> level where the guns were with its natural
> protection from incoming fire
> still gives a commanding view of the
> battlefield.
>
> We had a clear view of the Haut Perrier where
> the Frundsburg division and
> 10th SS were repulsed.
>
> Probably the first time a GMC had ridden these
> sunken lanes since 1944.....
>
>
>
>
>
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