NEW THIS WEEK – MONDAY 11 OCTOBER 2010

Hi there and welcome to this week’s new items. We’ve been delving into our photo collection again and bring you some more brilliant additions to our Normandy collection. These have proved really popular with you from the emails we’ve received, where they feature uniforms, vehicles or just the general atmospherics of the battlefront. As usual, we’ve brought some samples below for you to see.

We start with a nice photo of Omaha beach well past the landings date with a metalised sheet road laid to bring vehicles over the sand. 

Normandy Collection No 782

Next is a rare photo of Mulberry Harbour A, just off Omaha beach. Looking into the photo, it’s still being built with cranes lifting the final pieces into place. Not long after the D-Day landings, the American artificial harbour was assembled but was destroyed beyond repair after a huge storm came up the English Channel.

Normandy Collection No 793

 Another fine photo of Mulberry A, but this time after it has been completed. It features an M8 armoured car with a half-track following it, while on the right are a pair of COE GMC 2.5ton 6×6 trucks.  

Normandy Collection No 795

 A great photo of a group of US 82nd Airborne paratroopers just relaxing after the hard fighting in Normandy. Very useful for details of uniform and the kit that was used. 

Normandy Collection No 796

Finally, we have a photo of some US nurses doing their washing up after ‘chow time’. Useful photo for our re-enactor friends who want to set up an authentic camp at War & Peace Show. 

Normandy Collection No 792

 So my friends, back to the scanner and let us see what next week brings !

Cheerio !

Simon