This is Volume 1 showing the first 250 photographs from a very exciting collection of photos taken by many Allied servicemen during the Normandy Campaign of the Summer of 1944. Following the D-Day Landings on 6th June 1944, the Allies attempted to breakout from the bridghead throughout June. The Americans drove up the Cotentin peninsula towards Cherbourg and then across through into Brittany. Many of the photos show the devestation of battle of just the ordinary little villages that were destroyed in the name of the Liberation. If you are a military vehicle enthusiast who owns and loves their Jeeps, Dodges and Jimmies, then see your vehicle in it’s environment. Who knows maybe your actual vehicle may be in one of the photos. Looking at many of the photos the Summer of ’44 looked pretty dry and dusty, with many vehicles covered in a light dust. Again a useful observation for model makers amongst us.
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Willys MB/Ford GPW Jeep (TSY 272) |
21 Engineer Regiment (LAD, Light Ai |
Land Rover 90 Defender (36 KL 12) |
M33 HMS Brocklesby (Minesweeper) Ph |
Bedford RL 3Ton Home Office (SXF 30 |
Land Rover 90 Defender (71 KF 12) |
GMC 353 CCKW 6x6 Dump Truck (WAS 81 |
Eastern Front Collection 459 |
Land Rover 101 GS (SOH 53 R) |
Land Rover S2 109 (GRX 973 K) |
Bedford RL Green Goddess (PGW 350)( |
Wartime in the Vale 2010, Land Rove |
Bedford QL 3Ton (XBW 775 H) |
US Hawaiian Department |
Wartime in the Vale 2010, Land Rove |
Diamond T 969 4Ton 6x6 Wrecker (HSL |
Seddon Atkinson Strato 380 Tractor |
Austin Champ (YVT 187 H)(06 BF 53) |
Willys MB Jeep (YFF 457) |
Eastern Front Collection 129 |