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May sound bizarre - but there are loads of them dotted around Europe as war memorials...


European Tour 2009 by Scouse_and_Jules, on Flickr

Normandy is such a nice place.

scouse wrote:May sound bizarre - but there are loads of them dotted around Europe as war memorials...


European Tour 2009 by Scouse_and_Jules, on Flickr

There is even one here in the UK, a Sherman Tank at Torrcross Cornwall; which I believe is a memorial to the American soldiers who drowned when they were attacked by a German U or E boat off the Cornish coast while practising for the Normandy landings.
I understand that the beaches are very similar in nature, which is why they chose it.

on the ranges in sennybridge

Ok, I can manage a couple of them, Fiona told me to go up to the Lossie rd for a pic with the old Buccaneer but I've a couple military pics here already!
One from the past and one from,,, well,,, the past but only last yr!

One of my previous @'s on a bombing range in the highlands . . .


And this is whats chucked around on the range . . .

The big blue things, not the @'s

Steve T

B)

tanks and big guns D-DAY Beaches france

Down range in a secret location :blink:


The expression on my face is due to very slow self timer and a very fast lack of patience

snaphappy wrote:
The expression on my face is due to very slow self timer and a very fast lack of patience

Yup - the same face you see on peeps who take their own pictures with a web cam the " is it feckin' working ? " look

Sherman at the Arnhem museum. Excellent place if you're anywhere near - underground bit is well worth the small fee !