Visit to Omaha Beach, the Normandy American Cemetery and Pointe du Hoc.

[Sylvain]

Each country involved in WW2 gave a stone to build the museum and memorial.

The building was built during the cold war so they have two stones from Germany.

The stone given by the USA.

 

[Sylvain]

The museum is built on top of a cliff, deep underground and inside that cliff is a bunker from which the German general in charge of defending the D-Day beaches gave his orders.

As you visit that part you can hear a soundtrack of the Allied bombing at the surface.

 

[Sylvain]

 

[Sylvain]

 

[Sylvain]

That's an automatic flame thrower (apparently it's a thing).Germans had several hidden around the bunker in addition to mines and machine gun nests to protect the entrance.

 

[Leadeye]

Still one of the best belt fed guns ever made, the MG-42 with it's belt, ammo can and spare barrel with carrier. Another good sub gun, the MP-40, still has it's original Bakelite stock pieces.

 

[Sylvain]

Still one of the best belt fed guns ever made, the MG-42 with it's belt, ammo can and spare barrel with carrier. Another good sub gun, the MP-40, still has it's original Bakelite stock pieces.

I knew I didn't have to take a close up pictures of the text on the plaques for the INGO folks when it came to guns.

 

[Sylvain]

 

[Sylvain]

Bunker entrance.

 

[actaeon277]

I was going to ask why the revolver with the tied barrel picture was here.
But now I see there is a copy of it at Caen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mémorial_de_Caen

 

[Sylvain]

I was going to ask why the revolver with the tied barrel picture was here.
But now I see there is a copy of it at Caen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mémorial_de_Caen

That's this one.

It's a symbol of peace and non-violence.

Of course I'm not sure it's the best symbol, looks like it's blaming the tool once again.
Guns were pretty useful to fight the Nazis and bring back freedom and peace.

 

[Dead Duck]

Ya -
"Non-Violence" "Anti-Gun" Whichever the artist meant.
Peace was only archived there with the gun.

 

[Sylvain]

That wikipedia article is not up to date.
The Nobel Peace Prize gallery was remove in 2013, it was in the underground bunker.

They had this statue in front of it for a while.

But feminists were not happy with it and it was removed.

 

[actaeon277]

I'd imagine that there are still plenty, undiscovered, still in the Pacific. The theater, not the ocean.

A World War II Bomber Lost with 11 Servicemembers Has Been Found After 74 Years | Mental Floss
World War II Bomber Lost with 11 Servicemembers Has Been Found After 74 Years

 

[actaeon277]

That wikipedia article is not up to date.
The Nobel Peace Prize gallery was remove in 2013, it was in the underground bunker.

They had this statue in front of it for a while.

But feminists were not happy with it and it was removed.

Did feminists really say something about it??

 

[Sylvain]

Did feminists really say something about it??

Of course they did.I couldn't make that up.

They complained and asked the city to remove it.
I think the kiss from that famous photograph that inspired the statue was "non-consensual".

V-J Day in Times Square (also V-Day and The Kiss)[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP] is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays a U.S. Navy sailorgrabbing and kissing a stranger—a woman in a white dress—on Victory over Japan Day ("V-J Day") in New York City's Times Squareon August 14, 1945.

 

[Dead Duck]

Did feminists really say something about it??

If they did, that's just ridiculous. What year do they think this is?
Feminists need to go back to the kitchen.... and make me a samich.

How far can you see up her skirt?

 

[Jag3212323]

Here are a few photos from my visit in October 2016. The amount of ground that soldiers had to cover was insane.





QUOTE=Sylvain;7541943]Making it to Omaha Beach ... I was there at low tide (like when GIs landend), the pictures don't really show the scale of the beach.
Omaha Beach is over 5 miles long and over 350 yards at low tide, which is the distance a landing soldier had to cover before they could reach the cliffs, and the dunes, and the first German bunkers.

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[Jag3212323]

Sorry, poor reply. The last 5 photos of the previous post were mine. The last one was at Pointe du Hoc.



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[Trigger Time]

THANK YOU so much Sylvain! Thank you too Jag for the pics of the beach.
I consider myself very lucky to have had the great honor to have met and broke bread with some of the men that took those very cliffs, beaches and bunkers. Talking with them and hearing their VERY vivid memories of those events just gave me the goose bumps and a few tears. Yes RLTW! I pray to God that America will always produce MEN and WOMEN with the intestinal fortitude but also the heart, willing to lay down life and fortune for the downtrodden and oppressed and abused and for what is just and right, For Freedom and the American Flag always leading the way. It means so much more than what it's made of.
We truly are blessed and those hollowed grounds are just one famous example where the ground is full of American Blood.

Sylvain, the Reagan bunker pic of him and Nancy and then your modern pic is one of the coolest damn things I've ever seen man.