Following on is Volume 2 showing the next 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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Land Rover 110 Defender (00 KF 59) |
Eastern Front Collection 1133 |
Eastern Front Collection 206 |
Leyland Daf 8x8 Drops (77 KH 79) |
Berlin May/June 1945 143 |
Eastern Front Collection 1145 |
Eastern Front Collection 813 |
Eastern Front Collection 845 |
Puma Helicopter Gun Platform |
Normandy 1944 Collection 236 |
Normandy 1944 Collection 97 |
Berlin May/June 1945 81 |
Berlin May/June 1945 15 |
Normandy 1944 Collection 665 |
Eastern Front Collection 649 |
Bedford MJ 4 Ton Cargo (79 KD 98) |
Berlin May/June 1945 231 |
Eastern Front Collection 726 |
GMC 353 DUKW 6x6 Cargo (GHO 44 N) 2 |
Wartime in the Vale 2010, VW Iltis |