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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M3A1 Half Track (WSU 733) |
Thornycroft SM-GRN6 Big Ben 10Ton 6 |
Blackhawk UH-60 Utility Helicopter |
M3 Lee (2) |
Eastern Front Collection 271 |
M4 Sherman Firefly (1) |
Normandy 1944 Collection 857 |
25 Morris CDSW Light Breakdown |
Normandy 1944 Collection 385 |
Stug III SPG (2) |
Berlin May/June 1945 142 |
Normandy 1944 Collection 73 |
Land Rover S2 109 SAS Pink Panther |
British 1 Infantry Division Infantr |
Normandy 1944 Collection 120 |
Morris J2 Minibus (39 EP 55) |
US 21 Corps |
Eastern Front Collection 704 |
Bedford MJ 4 Ton Cargo (61 KE 88) |
Wartime in the Vale 2010, Austin Ch |