NEW THIS WEEK – MONDAY 28 DECEMBER 2009

Hi there and welcome to what’s new on Miliblog this week.

Or rather, what was new on Miliblog this week, as we catch up on the weekly newsletters !

Well after posting the first 500 of the Eastern Front Collection featuring the battleground between the German forces and the Soviet forces, we’ve received many emails asking if we had any photos showing the campaign in France after D-Day in June 1944. The answer has been a very loud ‘Yes’ and so this week after much hard work, the first batch of photos were posted into the Normandy 1944 Collection. I’ve loaded ten samples below to show you what are available. Although having seen the photos myself many times, I still get a real buzz seeing our preserved military vehicles actually in action. The Jeeps, the Jimmies, the Beeps, the liberated captured equipment as well as the troops wearing the uniforms and equipment that many of us collect or wear. Looking closer into the photos, you can see the amount of devestation to the French towns and villages that happened during the battles. The Liberation certainly came at a price.

If you are not sure how to visit these collections, go to the main menu and chose ‘Gallery of Photo Collection’. Then chose ‘Original WW2 Photos’ and then ‘Eastern Front Collection’ or ‘Normandy 1944 Collection’. You can start at Tab 1 and as you go through click on a photo to enlarge it onto your screen. Click again and you should be able to really enlarge the photo onto your screen. Some are really sharp photos, taken by the US Signal Corps, while others are a little blured as they were taken by troops at the frontline with their amateur cameras.  Don’t forget, you can also click on any of the sample photos below to enlarge them !

We’re going concentrate on adding more to both the Normandy and the Eastern Front collection over the next few weeks. I hope you will be interested in viewing these photos which give a fantastic insight of what the conditions were at the front line.

Meanwhile a happy new Year to you all and the thoughts of a more prosperous year ahead for all of us. 

Cheerio !

Simon 

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